Birth Quote by Stephen Vizinczey

Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every asylum: one…

— Bertrand Russell

Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the…

— Vernon Howard

Some of the most powerful memories are those when you are very, very young. Adult life is seen through the reflection of complex, rational…

— Hisham Matar

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

— Milan Kundera

Men are most powerfully affected by those evils which themselves feel, or which appear before their own eyes.

— Samuel Johnson

Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by…

— Samuel Johnson

There is no means by which men so powerfully elude their ignorance, disguise it from themselves and from others as by words

— Gamaliel Bradford

Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians…

— Gottfried Leibniz

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

— Ben Jonson

World leaders and major political figures have often had delusions of grandeur.

— Gavin Esler

The facile delusions which conceal from us our true situation all amount to this: that we are, or can be, wiser than the wisest…

— Leo Strauss

A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld