Aristotle, from Politics
“He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.”
Aristotle, from Politics
“He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.”
John Adams, on liberty
“A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”
Aeschylus
“Everyone’s quick to blame the alien.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, from Emile (1762)
“Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.”
Winston S. Churchill, on tyranny
“Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.”
Jeff Tweedy, on music (2004)
“A piece of art is not a loaf of bread. When someone steals a loaf of bread from the store, that’s it. The loaf of bread is gone. When someone downloads a piece of music, it’s just data until the listener puts that music back together with their own ears, their mind, their subjective experience. How they perceive your work changes your work.”
Gerald Brenan, from Thoughts in a Dry Season (1978)
“Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people’s values.”
Michael Servetus
“Inherent of human condition is the sickness of believing the rest are impostors and heathen, and not ourselves, because nobody recognizes his own mistakes.”
Friedrich von Schlegel, on history
“A historian s a prophet in reverse.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1897)
“The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.”