17 Dec , 2013
Things that we hear pass quicker from our minds than what we read. Great short quote and quotation by: Ausonius ,
17 Apr , 2013
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way. Great […]
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13 Oct , 2011
Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms. Great short quote and quotation by: Charles Caleb Colton , (1780 – 1832)
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Immanuel Kant, FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF ETHICS
13 Oct , 2011
To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But […]
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13 Oct , 2011
To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes. Great short quote and quotation by: Thomas Carlyle , Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 – 1881)
24 Mar , 2011
Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them. Great short quote and quotation by: Author Unknown ,
15 Feb , 2011
Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace. Great short quote and quotation by: U Thant ,
15 Feb , 2011
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. Great short quote and quotation by: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)
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15 Feb , 2011
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. Great short quote and quotation by: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)
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15 Feb , 2011
We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings. Great short quote and quotation by: Ludwig van Beethoven , German Romantic composer (1770 – 1827)
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Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
15 Feb , 2011
We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human […]
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Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus, sct. 262.
15 Feb , 2011
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. Great short quote and quotation by: Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus, sct. 262. , Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)
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