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“Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name.”
Source : Richard Chenevix Trench (1873). “A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from Their Present”, p.49
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“All of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiance of what is”
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“In fact, it used to be a joke if you studied at a University”
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“Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.”
Source : Henning Mankell (2010). “Faceless Killers: Kurt Wallander”, p.290, Random House
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“[On peanut M&Ms:] It is the eggness of them. A shell, chocolate placenta, proteiny peanut baby. Life shape, birth shape, cell shape, protoplasmic-ooze shape. A shape that calls straight through civilization to our reptilian brains.”
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“You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.”
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“The lack of brotherhood among believers themselves has paralyzed the church in front of the skepticism and immorality of the world; but when we go back in simple faith to the one great fact of our redemption, we shall be both brought into closer fellowship with each other, and stimulated to more tender regard for the salvation of men.”
Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 111, 1895.
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“Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.”
Source : Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.170
