Random Quotes
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Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt, p. 205
In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom.Nicanor Parra
One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.G.K. Chesterton
Yo soy un anima infeliz,Perdida en este mundo atormendo.
I am a miserable spirit lost in this tormented world.James A Michener, Iberia
One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.Barry Lopez
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.Sir Francis Bacon
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.James Joyce
One repays a teacher badly if one only remains a pupil.Nietzsche
Civilization is very much an immature and ongoing experiment, the success of which is by no means yet proven.Colin Turnbull, anthropologist, The Human Cycle
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.Leigh Hunt