Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes? – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Category: Humankind
Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes. – William Winwood Reade Category: Humankind
That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin Category: Humankind
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. – John Erskine Category: Music
Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible. – Samuel Butler Category: Birth
Readership was high, and very attentive. It was peoples only source of knowledge about the world. – Ryszard Kapuscinski Category: Knowledge
