"Confidence and hope do more good than physic."

--

Galen

“The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method. You could ignore a subject; no subject is all-inclusive. But a method can plausibly be applied to anything within the field of consciousness.”
“I really want to go to college.”
“Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles.”
“Ethiopians imagine their gods as black and snub-nosed; Thracians blue-eyed and red-haired. But if horses or lions had hands, or could draw and fashion works as men do, horses would draw the gods shaped like horses and lions like lions, making the gods resemble themselves.”
“That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.”
“Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.”

Source : 1949 'A Desperate View', lecture given in NewYork.
“Behold a silly tender babe,In freezing winter night,In homely manger trembling lies;Alas! a piteous sight.”

Source : Saint Robert Southwell, William Joseph Walter (1817). “St. Peter's Complaint: And Other Poems”, p.47
“The stats win nothing. I'm still sexy. I'm still great.”

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