What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.
– Anne Lamott
Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.
—Aldous Huxley
Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.
—Aldous Huxley
The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams.
—Plato
The principal thing wherein praise in our behavior consists, and which is most acceptable to God, is a cheerful obedience.
—Jonathan Edwards
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
—Plato
In order to live by its own law, a bird must fly, a snake must crawl, a fish must swim, and a man must love. Therefore, if instead of loving people a man does evil to them, he behaves as strangely as a bird that tries to swim or a fish that tries to fly.
—Leo Tolstoy