"A good death does honour to a whole life."

-- Petrarch

#Death Quotes #Doe Quotes #Whole Life Quotes

“Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his unison with the sun and the earth. Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was a personal, merely personal feeling, taken away from the rising and the setting of the sun, and cut off from the magic connection of the solstice and the equinox!”
“The Vietnam War was so obviously evil and bore down most heavily upon working class youth that it made me think about things more deeply than I had before. It disillusioned me completely and forever about the government. And it made me aware that the media and the government lied almost as a matter of course. But it also opened my eyes to what was really going on in America.”
“When the elements are arranged in vertical columns according to increasing atomic weight, so that the horizontal lines contain analogous elements again according to increasing atomic weight, an arrangement results from which several general conclusions may be drawn.”
“One other hobby of mine has been playing the oboe but I have not kept this up after 1969.”
“But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.”

Source : RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”
“We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.”

Source : Clive Bell (1958). “Art”, Perigee
“I've always believed in instinct over intellect. The instinct is what you always knew; intellect is what you figure out.”

Source : Michka Assayas (2006). “Bono”, p.92, Penguin
“Brilliant lecturers shouldn't be wasted in lecture rooms: they should appear onTV. We need black market universities, in which people just help each other, and which don't leave out the poor.”

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