"Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind."

-- Isaac D'Israeli

#Mind Quotes #Furniture Quotes #Ancient Quotes

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”
“Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast.”
“Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn't a painter at all. He had no courage and I believe that to create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.”
“The change began with John Stuart Mill and the Utopians . When Mill pointed out that economics had no ultimate solution to the problem of distribution , that society might do with the fruits of its toil as it saw fit, he introduced into the mechanical calculus of the market a conflicting calculus of moral judgment.”

Source : "The Worldly Philosophers". Book by Robert Heilbroner, Chapter XI, Beyond the Economic Revolution, p. 307, 1953.
“That man is best Who does his best And leaves the rest, Then-do not worry.”
“I think I am upsetting the coach.”
“If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.”
“The world has white people and black people in it. Even in Harlem.”

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