"A German philosopher once wrote that he who fights monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself."

-- Anthony Horowitz

#Fighting Quotes #Monsters Quotes #Care Quotes

“The new knowledge has not yet settled in culture. It has not yet been integrated in a new cosmic conception.”
“I can see others in the sunlight; I can see our boats' crews and our athletic young men on the glistening water, or speckled with the moving lights of sunlit leaves; but I myself am always in the shadow looking on. Not unsympathetically, - God forbid! - but looking on alone, much as I looked at Sylvia from the shadows of the ruined house, or looked at the red gleam shining through the farmer's windows, and listened to the fall of dancing feet, when all the ruin was dark that night in the quadrangle.”
“Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements.”

Source : Chauncey Wright (2000). “The Evolutionary Philosophy of Chauncey Wright”, p.96, A&C Black
“The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.”
“The fullness of life is incubated in its messy places.”
“God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.”
“It's like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirirt.”
“We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty...”

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