Non conformity Quote by Henry James

“Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Maybe it’s time to realize that our greatest contributions are not the monuments that we construct, but the lives that we change because we…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“the highest monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their eternity to its mischievous pranks.”

— Victor Hugo

“I often wonder why, when governments and communities erect monuments to heroes, they forget to erect one to the honour of the Pioneer.”

— Frederick de la Fosse

“In this circumstance the text, which both records their actions and describes the monuments they erected, acts as the primary, indeed sole “memory place”…

— Michael A. Flower

“But leaders need to be mostly dead. People want solid monuments to cling to, not confused men like themselves.”

— Alasdair Gray

“What is invisible and yet still lives is more powerful than monuments or words engraved in stone.”

— Myriam J.A. Chancy

“It’s the same nonsense for which all monuments are built: we fought, we bled, we died, and all in the name of glory. And…

— Melissa Grey

“With their profound thoughts and ideas, which they seek everywhere and project into everything, they make life harder for themselves than they should. Oh,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.…

— ralph waldo emerson

“Those will realize, who are capable of reflection, that the reality which excites us is an idea, of which the indirection, the veiling, the…

— Smith III, Ted J