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Quotes by English Authors
"One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need."
"I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits."
"They amaze me most of those remixes. Some of them are crap. But every time I complain, someone comes up and says they are for a different market that you don't understand. Some of the New Order ones are really great, though."
"The democratic and pedestrian character of the new Mass itself seems to invite the ditties that pass for hymns these days."
"There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been."
"The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man."
"How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!"
"To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt to influence the constitution of the government by acting on opinion, is to forget that opinion is itself one of the greatest active social forces. One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests."
"The message of this lecture is that black holes ain't as black as they are painted. They are not the eternal prisons they were once though things can get out of a black hole both on the outside and possibly to another universe. So if you feel you are in a black hole, don't give up " there's a way out."
"Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed."
"The only still center of my life is Macbeth. To go back to doing this bloody, crazed, insane mass-murderer is a huge relief after trying to get my cell phone replaced."
"It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality."
"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted."
"In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory."
"Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip."
"There is less danger in fearing too much than too little."
"A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous."
"For after the Battle comes quiet."
"Schelling's God is the totality of Nature struggling towards consciousness, and Man is as far as the struggle has got, with the animals not too far behind, vegetables somewhat lagging, and rocks nowhere as yet. Do we believe this? Does it matter? Think of it as a poem or a painting. Art doesn't have to be true like a theorem. It can be true in other ways. This truth says there is a meaning to it all, and Man is where the meaning begins to show."
"I have in this War a burning private grudge-which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than I was at 22: against that ruddy little ignoramus Adolf Hitler (for the odd thing about demonic inspiration and impetus is that it in no way enhances the purely intellectual stature: it chiefly affects the mere will). Ruining, perverting, misapplying, and making for ever accursed, that noble northern spirit, a supreme contribution to Europe, which I have ever loved, and tried to present in its true light."
"Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done."
"The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened."
"Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress."
"With half the race gone, there is half the race still to go."
"The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins."
"We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics."
"Every man's memory is his private literature."
"Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason."
"Old Barley might be as old as thee hills, and might swear like a whole field of troopers, but there were redeeming youth and trust and hope enough in Chinks's Basin to fill it to overflowing."
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