"Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me."

-- Georg Brandes

#Feelings Quotes #Mind Quotes

“The fight against unfair scheduling is like the fight for a regulated work day - it's people fighting for reasonable conditions at work and to have a life, so you can have some leisure.”
“I would like to quote a very prejudicial doctrine that was handed down by the Supreme Court in 1823. It said that the Indian Nations do not have title to their lands because they weren't Christians. That the first Christian Nations to discover an area of heathen lands has the absolute title. This doctrine should be withdrawn and renounced to establish a new basis for relationship between indigenous peoples and other peoples of the world.”
“I'm just trying to illustrate that it's okay to be different â€” not that it's good, not that it's bad, but that it's all right. I'm trying to tell kids to have a good time and to encourage them to be creative and to question things,”
“To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will tax the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object. Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.”
“Whatever; bling always has something to hide.”
“As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.”
“Many childrens writers dont have children of their own”
“The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness.”

You may also like:

Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosopher
August Strindberg
Playwright
Charles Darwin
Naturalist
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philologist
Henrik Ibsen
Playwright
Hippolyte Taine
Jens Peter Jacobsen
Novelist
Knut Hamsun
Author
Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher