“Men are influenced by big loud empty words, styes which swell the eyelids and impede vision of the truth.”— Anthony Burgess, Here Comes Everybody: An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader (1965)Share
“Home to people like me is not a place but all places, all places except the one we happen to be in at the moment.”— Anthony BurgessShare
“The important thing is to get yourself born. You’re entitled to that. But you’re not entitled to life.”— Anthony BurgessShare
“It is man's job to be curious; it is man's job to try to find out the truth about the world about us.”— Anthony BurgessShare
“For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”— C.S. LewisShare
“A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.”— Henry David ThoreauShare
“To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action when there is more reason to fear than to hope.”— Miguel de CervantesShare
“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power, the greater it will be.”— Thomas JeffersonShare
