Quote by Johann Georg Hamann

“The object most interesting to me for the residue of my life, will be to see you both developing daily those principles of virtue…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Among all things that can be contemplated under the concavity of the heavens, nothing is seen that arouses the human spirit more, that ravishes…

— Pierre Boaistuau

“Man, it is true, can, by combination, surmount all his real enemies, and become master of the whole animal creation: but does he not…

— David Hume

“Strip him of equipage and fortune, and such things as only dazzle our eyes and imaginations, but don't in any measure affect our reason…

— Mary Astell

“Later you referenced that anecdote to illustrate that my expectations were always preposterously outsized; that my very ravenousness for the exotic was self-destructive, because…

— Lionel Shriver

“I am concerned with facts of quite unverifiable intrinsic value, but which, by their absolutely unexpected violently fortuitous character, and the kind of associations…

— André Breton

“Elinor made no answer. Her thoughts were silently fixed on the irreparable injury which too early an independence and its consequent habits of idleness,…

— Jane Austen

“Deprived of the infinite, man has become what he always was: a supernumerary. He hardly counts; he forms part of the troupe called Humanity;…

— Remy de Gourmont

“But a terror of this nature, as it occupies and expands the mind, and elevates it to high expectation, is purely sublime, and leads…

— Ann Radcliffe

“One might almost say that affinities begin with the letters of the alphabet. In that sequence, O and P are inseparable. You might just…

— Victor Hugo

“And thus, as a closer and still closer intimacy admitted me more unreservedly into recesses if his spirit, the more bitterly did I perceive…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“There are many paradoxes in the world and one of them is this, that wherever the landscape is immense, the sky unlimited, clouds intimately…

— Rabindranath Tagore