A fool with a heart and no brains is just as #unhappy as a fool with brains and no heart

#FyodorDostoevsky

We are the #hollow men

We are the stuffed men

Leaning together

Headpiece filled with straw

#TSEliot

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past

#GeorgeOrwell

_1984_

Believe and act as if it were #impossible to fail

#CharlesFKettering

People with no #morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love

#CharlesBukowski

The #Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself

#eecummings

If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all

#Michelangelo

Use of #force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it doesn't remove necessity of subduing again

#EdmundBurke

I find #war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so

#RomainRolland

We build a fire in a powder magazine, then double the fire department to put it out. We inflame wild beasts with the smell of blood, and then innocently wonder at the wave of brutal appetite that sweeps the land as a consequence

#MarkTwain

People will not look forward to #posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors

#EdmundBurke

Years of love have been forgot, In the #hatred of a minute

#EdgarAllanPoe

#Contribution is a wholly different concept from hard work

#DavidYoungberg

For there is never anything but the #present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere

#AlanWatts

The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything

#OscarWilde

It is difficult to free #fools from the chains they revere

#Voltaire

Despite doubling world population, even the raw number of people living in absolute #poverty has fallen since the 1950s

@MattWRidley

Modern people are overly #complacent and lack vigilance when it comes to defending their own freedoms from government overreach

@ZubyMusic

The more #laws, the less justice

#MarcusTulliusCicero

For the function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and #evil; whereas, inasmuch as all things morally wrong are evil, trickery prefers the evil to the good

#MarcusTulliusCicero