Claude Bragdon Quotes

#1. ABOUT: KAHLIL GIBRAN
"His power came from some great reservoir of spiritual life else it could not have been so universal and so potent, but the majesty and beauty of the language with which he clothed it were all his own."
Claude Bragdon

Claude Bragdon

#2. Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself.

Claude Fayette Bragdon

#3. We must despise all these temptations and pay no attention whatsoever to them.

Therese De Lisieux

#4. People always want to live, even during wartime. You'll learn a lot from living through a war...There is no beast worse than man.

Svetlana Alexievich

#5. Down the well, Angela repeated, and had to go sit down and hold on to her letter opener. It was in the shape of a dagger. Angela said holding it soothed her; seeing Angela hold it did not soothe Kami.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#6. The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.

Seneca The Younger

#7. Don't fear the unexpecred or you'll be locked in time.

Ben Campbell

#8. The Ancient Egyptians were not fools, Carter. They built the pyramids. They created the first great nation state. Their civilization lasted thousands of years."
"Yeah," I said. "And now they're gone.

Rick Riordan

#9. We need to learn ... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonise our enemies in order to justify that war's indefinite continuance.

Tony Judt