"He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul."

-- Horace Walpole

#Taken Quotes #Soul Quotes #Melancholy Quotes

“The break from the supposedly culturally-narrow religious bases of knowledge in favor of supposedly trans-cultural scientific bases of knowledge served as the self-justification of a particularly pernicious form of cultural imperialism.”
“I hate when new parents ask who the baby looks like. It was born 15 minutes ago, it looks like a potato”
“Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it.”
“Some parents let kids "learn on their own skin" and many of those kids end up, as adults, languishing on their parents' sofas.”
“When anything bad happens to me or someone I know, I always know who to blame. My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.”
“I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power”
“Err in the direction of kindness.”
“Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make the law, all the plundered classes try somehow to enter, by peaceful or revolutionary means, into the making of laws. According to their degree of enlightenment, these plundered classes may propose one of two entirely different purposes when they attempt to attain political power: Either they may wish to stop lawful plunder, or they may wish to share in it.”

Source : Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.9, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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