Category: Quotations

I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones.  Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.Elie Wiesel

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?Henry Miller

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.  One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.Okakura Kak

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.W. H. Auden

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.Sallust, Jugurthine War