Category: Quotations

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.  The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe.  Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.Ayn Rand, “The Fountainhead”

There are many forms of stupidity, and cleverness is the worst.Thomas Mann

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self, but the point is not only to get out you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.Henry James

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.George Santayana

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.John Galsworthy

There is enough in the world for everyone’s need, but not enough for everyone’s good.Frank Buchman