Anything we do to fight misery and ignorance and poverty, no matter how imperfect it may be, is still better than doing nothing at all.
Do not take someone's silence as his pride, perhaps he is busy fighting with his self.
There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.
The days of life pass away like clouds, so do good while you are alive.
He who understands humanity seeks solitude
Nothing hurts a good soul and kind heart more than to live amongst people who can't understand it.
Silence is the garden of thought.
We especially need imagination in science. Question everything.
It was quite a challenge to make people eat crab ice cream.
Suttree surfaced from these fevered deeps to hear a maudlin voice chant latin by his bedside, what medieval ghost come to usurp his fallen corporeality. An oiled thumball redolent of lime and sage pondered his shuttered lids. Miserere mei, Deus. . . His ears anointed, his lips. . . omnis maligna discordia. . . Bechrismed with scented oils he lay boneless in a cold euphoria. Japheth when you left your father's house the birds had flown. You were not prepared for such weathers. You'd spoke too lightly of the winter in your father's heart. We saw you in the streets. Sad.
America did not need to be discovered because quite simply America had the American-Indians. There were whole groups of people that already lived there including very developed societies such as the Incas, the Aztecs, and the Mayans. But then came the European vision that saw the conquest as a source of advanced growth away from medieval Europe. The new revolutionary bourgeois trend formed a new perspective on what was democracy that they saw as an improvement to the democracy of ancient Greece.