Steinfort Commune Quotes

#1. To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives.

Gilles Deleuze

#2. All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.

C.S. Lewis

#3. You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.

Galileo Galilei

#4. When you've tried all the salves in the world and they don't work, you start thinking about fire

Stephen R. Donaldson

#5. Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!

Seneca The Younger

#6. It's misleading to suppose there's any basic difference between education & entertainment . This distinction merely relieves people of the responsibility of looking into the matter.

Marshall McLuhan

#7. I hated school. I travelled so much in my early years that I didn't understand the process. I felt suffocated - not like I was some grandiose artist; I just felt like an alien.

Dakota Johnson

#8. My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.

Narendra Modi

#9. And that phrase - 'sleeping like a baby.' Some blonde said it blithely on the subway the other day. I wanted to lie down next to her and scream for five hours in her ear.

Jenny Offill