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But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? - the entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world - a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.
Virginia Woolf

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I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.
William Butler Yeats

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To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.
Carlos Castaneda

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The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

sweet and sour

sweet and sour
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In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.
William Wordsworth

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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened.
William Wordsworth

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All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
James Madison

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When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity. The distinction between crime and justice is no greater.
George Bernard Shaw

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
Aldous Huxley

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It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Albert Einstein

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There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.
Sun Tzu

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The beast in me is caged by frail and fragile bars.
Johnny Cash

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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
Emily Bronte

Tatters

Tatters
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I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, downthrow and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.
Dylan Thomas

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The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
Voltaire

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Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
Thomas Hardy

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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
Albert Camus

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America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
Hunter S. Thompson

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
Joseph Stalin