The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant…

Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode - from…

— Ralph Gibson

The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours…

— David Hume

While love is common, true love is rare, and I believe that few people are fortunate enough to experience it. The roads of regular…

— David Buss

To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.

— George Santayana

Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude

— Anonymous

Many of you have already found out, and others will find out in the course of their lives, that truth eludes us if we…

— Anonymous

If we try to hold on to our partial glimpses of the divine, we cut it down to our own size and close our…

— Karen Armstrong

It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.

— George Santayana

All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us.

— Ananda Coomaraswamy

The theoretical recognition of the split-space of enunciation may open the way to conceptualising an international culture, based not on the exoticism of multiculturalism…

— Homi K. Bhabha

The fact that so many people choose to live in ways that narrow the community of fate to a very limited set of others…

— Margaret Levi

Wisdom eludes me yet, but foolishness I captured long ago and to this day it is my constant companion, though many people consider me…

— Kevin Hearne

It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.

— Norman Maclean

Thinking carries a moral imperative. The searcher for truth must be ready to obey truth without reservation or it will elude him.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

It has been wisely said, "that well may thy guardian angel suffer thee to lose thy locks, when thou darest wilfully to lay thy…

— Jane Porter