I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men. – Bernard M. Baruch Category: Miscellaneous
Nature has placed man under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. – Jeremy Bentham, Principles of Morals and Legislation, 1789 Category: Miscellaneous
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Miscellaneous
Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us. – W.N. Rieger Category: Miscellaneous
Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers Category: Curiosity
How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant – and if youre gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed? – Rush Limbaugh Category: work
Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. – Aldous Huxley Category: Civilization
![Some defeats [are] more triumphant than victories. - Michel de Mon](/quote/some-defeats-more-triumphant-than-victories.jpg "Some defeats [are] more triumphant than victories. - Michel de Mon")
