“Our age has robbed millions of the simplicity of ignorance, and has so far failed to lift them to the simplicity of wisdom.”— Robertson Davies, A Voice from the Attic (1960)Share
“Work is a dangerous and destructive drug, and should be called by its right name, which is Fatigue.”— Robertson DaviesShare
“Art lies in understanding some part of the dark forces and bringing them under the direction of reason.”— Robertson DaviesShare
“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.”— William ShakespeareShare
“Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.”— Marcus AureliusShare
“The young have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations.”— AristotleShare
“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”— AristotleShare
“I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and noblest driving force behind scientific research.”— Albert EinsteinShare
“There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them.”— Albert EinsteinShare
