"The religious training inspired in me a desire for learning. In fact, I am immensely grateful for my Catholic education for instilling in me a desire for learning. However, the Catholic training also gave me a desire for questioning. The desire to question led me eventually to distance myself from the Catholic institution and its dogma."

“Hayek became in his later years the dominant intellectual influence of the last quarter of the twentieth century.”

“This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.”

“And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of your usual ideas. And this is a whole other category that you can get into.”

“Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.”

Source : Roy Blount, Jr. (2009). “Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory”, p.27, Macmillan

“But do you know this idea of the imaginary homeland? Once you set out from shore on your little boat, once you embark, you'll never truly be at home again. What you've left behind exists only in your memory, and your ideal place becomes some strange imaginary concoction of all you've left behind at every stop.”

“Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.”

“Imagination is the only true thing in the world!”

Source : Sarah Orne Jewett (1911). “Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett”

“American megalomania is largely responsible for the growth of the Skyscraper School.”