Today Quotes
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Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.Kilgore Trout, Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut. Page 19.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.Marcel Proust
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.Alfred Tennyson
A friend is a gift you give yourself.Robert Louis Stevenson
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus.
Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus, sct. 262.
Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.Socrates, Crito," (Plato)
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.Socrates, In "1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said," ed. Robert Byrne, 1988
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.Socrates, In "Apology," sct. 21, by Plato.
But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.Socrates, Apology, (Plato)