"I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings."

-- Elie Wiesel

#Encouragement Quotes #Two Quotes #Historical Quotes

“All the particles of the World are in Love and looking for Lovers.”
“These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.”
“Being naked makes me feel vulnerable. Clothes are quite the armor.”
“A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great battles and major discoveries.”
“The traditional doctrine of man and not the measurement of skulls and footprints is the key for the understanding of that anthropos who, despite the rebellion of Promethean man against Heaven from the period of Renaissance and its aftermath, is still the inner man of every man, the reality which no human being can deny wherever and whenever he lives, the imprint of a theomorphic nature which no historical change and transformation can erase completely from the face of that creature called man.”

Source : Seyyed Hossein Nasr (1989). “Knowledge and the Sacred: Revisioning Academic Accountability”, p.162, SUNY Press
“America's nurses are the beating heart of our medical system.”
“We're all cremated equal.”
“I suppose at some point, we all have to decide which memories - real or otherwise - to hold on to, and which ones to let go.”

Source : Melanie Benjamin (2010). “Alice I Have Been: A Novel”, p.338, Delacorte Press

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