"The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils."

-- John Dryden

“The universe is real, but you can't see it. You have to imagine it.”

Source : Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.), Alexander Calder (1974). “Alexander Calder: a retrospective exhibition. Work from 1925 to 1974”
“Justice is but the distributing to everything according to the requirements of its nature.”

Source : Joseph Glanvill (1682). “Two Choice and Vsefvl Treatises: The One, Lux Orientalis; Or, An Enquiry Into the Opinion of the Eastern Sages Concerning the Præxistence of Sovls”, p.97
“Forget normal.â€ He grinned. â€œWeâ€™re going to be extraordinary.”
“Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.”
“There are no footprints on the sea and no road-signs, not a single guard-stone or post, and no bends, only paths of light and dark from which to choose, the choice is always a difficult navigation and the storm's wingspan immeasurable as the depths and the horizon, but the sea holds you in its mighty hand your life is a sea-blue tale of love and death.”
“Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.”
“Listening to music, I always have exactly the same feeling: somethingâ€™s missing. Never will I learn the cause of this gentle sadness, never will I wish to investigate it.”

Source : Robert Walser (1990). “Masquerade and other stories”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
“We become what we love. What we put first in our lives is what we receive from life.”

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