With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, “Notebook L,” Aphorisms Category: Perspective
What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth. – Norman Cousins Category: Perspective
The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. – H.L. Mencken, Minority Report, 1956 Category: Perspective
[R]omantic doesn’t mean sugary. It’s dark and tormented — the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can’t attain. – Catherine Breillat Category: Perspective
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age. – Hesiod Category: Age
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one. – Queen Victoria Category: Marriage
