Showing posts with label Paul Tournier. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paul Tournier. Show all posts

Friday, August 14, 2009

Quotaria - Favorites

"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments
and questions--as attempts to find out something.
Success and failure are for him answers above all."
- Friedrich Nietzsche


"The more refined and subtle our minds,
the more vulnerable they are."
- Paul Tournier


"The best is yet to be ... so do it well."
- "The Man Without a Face" (movie)


"The truth shall make you odd."
- Flannery O'Connor


A lie gets halfway around the world before
the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Winston Churchill


Without music, life would be a mistake.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Quotaria

"A morning-glory at my window satisfies
me more than the metaphysics of books."
- Walt Whitman

"Sooner or later, those who win
are those who think they can."
- Paul Tournier


"Nature is a good name for an
effect whose cause is God."
- William Cowper

"Peace and justice are two
sides of the same coin."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower


"The first question I ask myself when something
doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think
it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover
that there is no reason."
- John Cage

"The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became
obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines."
- Henry J. Tillman