Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians (1918)

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

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Lao Tzu

He who knows enough is enough will always have enough.

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Miriam Beard

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

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Author Unknown

Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.

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Jeff Zurschmeide

And thou shalt smite thine enemy even unto the wall, gnashing thy teeth, and he shall grow small in thy mirrors.

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R. Buckminster Fuller

A self-balancing, 28-jointed adaptor-based biped; an electro-chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62,000 miles of capillaries....

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Yoshimi Ishikawa

Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power.

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Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.

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Martha Nussbaum

But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.

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