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- Their understanding
Begins to swell and the approaching tide
Will shortly fill the reasonable shores
That now lie foul and muddy. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defence of peace must be constructed.
- Unknown, UNESCO Constitution
- It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.
- Thomas Elliot
- Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
- Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
- It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.
- George Gissing (1857 - 1903)
- Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.
- Felix Frankfurter (1882 - 1965)
- He who spares the wicked injures the good.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- The higher your station, the less your liberty.
- Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC)
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