Cease Quote by Thomas Paine

Walter Benjamin knew that the break in tradition and loss of authority which occurred in his lifetime were irreparable, and he concluded that he…

— Hannah Arendt

“He knew no future then, no kind of life except the life he led. He fled the cave-bear over the rocks full of iron…

— H.G. Wells

Throughout his life, Albert Einstein would retain the intuition and the awe of a child. He never lost his sense of wonder at the…

— Walter Isaacson

“Even in his greatest dedication to science he had never managed to forget that people's goodness and beauty come from what they believe, not…

— Robert Musil

“He took a grim and ironic pleasure from the possibility that what little learning he had managed to acquire had led him to this…

— John Williams

When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“To me he seemed one of those persons destined to failure of whom you wonder what purpose it can ever serve that they should…

— Maugham Somerset William

“Nothing upsets the philosophical mind more than when he hears that from now on all philosophy is supposed to lie caught in the shackles…

— Friedrich Schelling

“The age of great men, when a single mind of intelligence and vision might change the destiny of the world, was long gone.”

— Helen Simonson

“He went up to his room like a man who has been condemned to death. His mind was completely empty, and he was quite…

— Anonymous

“...Since the mind, which was meant to be reasonable and intelligent, has, by dark and inveterate vices, become too weak to adhere joyously to…

— Augustine of Hippo

“He had never been willing to believe that life had to be as gray and dull as people claimed. He heard them saying: “Life…

— Michael Ende