Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba Quotes

#1. In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. I really don't like being on television. It makes me uneasy. It is not natural to be talking to a piece of machinery. But the money is very good.

Morley Safer

#3. We are unutterably alone essentially, especially in the things most intimate and most important.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#4. It is notoriously true that the public mind is seriously agitated with apprehensions of negroes insurrections and that it is becoming more and more so.

Thomas L. Smith

#5. Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple.

Pete Seeger

#6. Poor thing, consigned to a life of frivolousness and wretched things for breakfast. Not allowed to go to school or do anything worthwhile, and eel pie besides.

Connie Willis

#7. I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

Bryan Adams

#8. When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the true necessaries and means of life, it appears as if men had deliberately chosen the common mode of living because they preferred it to any other. Yet they honestly think there is no choice left.

Henry David Thoreau