#Hate Quotes #Degenerates Quotes #Persistent Quotes
“[If you understood the natural rights of mankind,] [y]ou would be convinced that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator to the whole human race, and that civil liberty is founded in that, and cannot be wrested from any people without the most manifest violation of justice.”
“It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen specimens thoroughly studied as the result of the first year's work, than to have two thousand dollars' worth of shells and corals bought from a curiosity-shop. The dozen animals would be your own.”
“I put a drop of lavender essential oil on my pillow before I go to sleep.”
“The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.”
“To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.”
“Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under the law of the established reality principle...The encounter with the truth of art happens in the estranging language and images which make perceptible, visible, and audible that which is no longer, or not yet, perceived, said, and heard in everyday life.”
“For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets are my fortune and my sanity.”
Source : Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.24, Faber & Faber
“Death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.”
Gerald of Wales
