The sick mind can not bear anything harsh. — Ovid Mensque pati durum sustinet ægra nihil. Original text (Latin) Share this quote Post on X Facebook Download image Copy quote Copy link Share… Another quote → Topics Mind
Tis hard, I admit, yet virtue aims at what is hard, and gratitude for such a service will be all the greater.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. H. P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist. Kenneth Boulding to Kenneth Boulding in: United States. Congress. House (1973)
The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error. Friedrich Schiller On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)