Fascinated famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours

  • A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

  • I've never been any good with authority.

  • Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.

  • What is true for E. coli is also true for the elephant.

  • We explore because we are curious, not because we wish to develop grand views of reality or better widgets.

  • The man who stands upon his own soil, who feels, by the laws of the land in which he lives,-by the laws of civilized nations,-he is the rightful and exclusive owner of the land which he tills, is, by the constitution of our nature, under a wholesome influence, not easily imbibed from any other source.

  • Sometimes I smoked opium. And I also took LSD - for a while, quite a lot of LSD, in fact. But I never had any bad experiences. I stopped in 1985. I'd had enough, and I don't miss it, either.

  • I have an excellent internal compass.

  • I'd like to think the best bunker buster is a diplomat.