All great truths begin as blasphemies. George Bernard Shaw, Annajanska (1919) Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions. George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4 US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 - 1952) Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10 US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 - 1952) The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. Hannah Arendt US (German-born) historian & social philosopher (1906 - 1975) If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead. Johnny Carson US comedian & television host (1925 - 2005) America guarantees equal opportunity, not equal outcome. Rush Limbaugh Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold. Ludwig van Beethoven German Romantic composer (1770 - 1827) When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. Albert Camus French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 - 1960) There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite. Jorge Luis Borges Argentine novelist & poet (1899 - 1986) The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread. Blaise Pascal French mathematician, physicist (1623 - 1662) |