Brave Quote by Herbert Read

“The turbulent billows of the fretful surface leave the deep parts of the ocean undisturbed; and to him who has a hold on vaster…

— William James

“Beneath the eerie calm of these unfathomable waters were deadly whirlpools of ambition, anger and unhappiness.”

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“And yet, the fact that we are no longer killing people for heresy in the West suggests that bad ideas, however sacred, cannot survive…

— Sam Harris

“Mortal lives are not stones. They are not seas. For impermanence to judge itself by the standards of permanence is folly. Or it is…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

— Francis Bacon

“The life which, if i were still a man with pride, honor, ambition and so forth, would seem like the bottom rung of degredation.…

— Henry Miller

“Amongst those who go to sea there are the navigators who discover new worlds, adding continents to the earth and stars to the heavens:…

— Gustave Flaubert

“On men reprieved by its disdainful mercy, the immortal sea confers in its justice the full privilege of desired unrest.”

— Joseph Conrad

Limitless and immortal, the waters are the beginning and end of all things on earth.

— Heinrich Zimmer

“Life is an ocean and every ocean necessitates right thinking and right action or else sinking becomes the only fate realisable!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Do not live by certain fixed rules, except those that relate to the cardinal virtues. Nor let your will subscribe fixed conditions, for you…

— Baltasar Gracián

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of…

— Rachel Carson