"Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life."

-- Plutarch

#Death Quotes #Men Quotes #Hymns Quotes

“The end of a thing, is never the end, something is always being born like a year of a baby.”
“Scientists want full proof under laboratory conditions. And the answer is very simple: When Im put under pressure, I cant perform. Even the phenomenon Im most known for. When Im on stage, Im not under pressure and it happens. In other important places, it happens. But in a laboratory where I really want it to happen, its very hard for me.”
“I understand everything,â€ he said. â€œYou understand nothing, but it really doesnâ€™t matter, since what you mean is, youâ€™re glad to see me, just as Iâ€™m glad to see you because no more loneliness.â€ â€œThatâ€™s what I mean,â€ said Fezzik.”
“We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.”
“I have come to understand that every day is something to cherish.”
“No, I want big ol' ***** in my face!”
“In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.”

Source : James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”
“Oh, why does compassion weaken us?' It doesn't, really...Somewhere where it all balances out-don't the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the place where the answers live?-if we could go there, you could see it doesn't.It only looks, a little bit, like it does, from here, like an ant at the foot of an oak tree. He doesn't have a clue that it's a tree; it's the beginning of the wall round the world, to him.”

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