Vicus Tuscus Quotes

#1. The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable.

Barbara Mikulski

#2. Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.

William Kingdon Clifford

#3. Witches are good at dealing with it, and to suddenly find a blank where these tendrils of the future should be has much the same effect on a witch as emerging from a cloud bank and seeing a team of sherpas looking down on him does on an airline pilot.

Terry Pratchett

#4. A medieval cathedral could consume a hundred man-centuries in its construction, yet was never used as a dwelling, or for any recognizably useful purpose.

Richard Dawkins

#5. Know yourself to improve yourself.

Auguste Comte

#6. Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?

Maurice Maeterlinck

#7. The boundary between tame and wild exists only in the imperfections of the human mind.

Aldo Leopold

#8. Be the change that you want to see in others and in this universe.

Bhavya

#9. I give you bitter pills, in a sugar coating. The pills are harmless - the poison's in the sugar

James St. James

#10. Prayer meetings are the throbbing machinery of the church.

Charles Spurgeon

#11. No matter how much you want to cut your family out of your heart, you can't. The bond is born when you are born, like an organ in your body. There is no surgery to remove it. When it is diseased, you live with a dull ache telling you that something inside you is not right.

Lisa Wingate

#12. What Socrates called the "unexamined life" that is "not worth living" now seems to be the life more people have slipped into than ever before.

Os Guinness

#13. ...to bring souls to God- and God to souls.

Mother Teresa

#14. When your time is turned into money, the felt presence of immediate experience is analogous to being enslaved. I mean, let's be frank about it, it is enslavement.

Terence McKenna