Certain Quote by Francois Rabelais

I recognize in [my readers] a specific form and individual property, which our predecessors called Pantagruelism, by means of which they never take anything…

— Francois Rabelais

Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when…

— Francois Rabelais

Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only one thing,…

— William Gaddis

“In the Middle Ages, spiritual advisors always warned against a state that had a variety of names but was difficult to describe: inertia, ill…

— Dorothee Soelle

“Hatred the only moving force, a petulant unhappy striving - childhood the only happiness, and that unknowing; then the continual battle that cannot ever…

— Patrick O'Brian

“The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny; the belief…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A culture that does not aspire to the divine becomes obsessed with the fascination of evil, reveling in the frivolous, the depraved, and the…

— George Gilder

“It is the fate of those who toil at the lower employments of life, to be rather driven by the fear of evil, than…

— Kory Stamper

“[W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by…

— Christine de Pizan

This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make guilty of…

— William Shakespeare

Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction, for others'…

— Gautama Buddha

“I am amazed at the heart of man: It possesses the substance of wisdom as well as the opposites contrary to it ... for…

— Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib