When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant. – Confucius Category: Scholars, Scholarship
I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. Thats what sitting on your ass does to your face. – Leonard Cohen Category: Scholars, Scholarship
He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. – Thomas Babington Macaulay Category: Scholars, Scholarship
And let a scholar all earths volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. – George Chapman Category: Scholars, Scholarship
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning – in other words, of absurdity – the more energetically meaning is sought. – Vaclav Havel Category: Experience
Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement. – Maggie Gallagher Category: Marriage
Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People dont get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way were almost ambassadors for peace, because sports brings everyone together. – Venus Williams Category: Peace