Aristotle
View AuthorPhilosophy must be a special knowledge, of the first principles and the first causes.
Aristotle
View AuthorIt is absolutely impossible to prove everything.
W. H. Auden
View AuthorThe words of a dead man are modified in the hearts of the living.
Sir Francis Bacon
View AuthorThe most honorable role in a conversation belongs to the one who gives occasion to it, and then to the one who directs it and makes it move from one topic to another, for thus one leads the dance.
Pío Baroja
View AuthorThe people have so little imagination that they eagerly collect from each other these small adornments of conversation. They are like ragpickers or collectors of clichés.
Ambrose Bierce
View AuthorQuoting is a way of repeating another person's words erroneously.
Giovanni Boccaccio
View AuthorNothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the right words are used to convey it.
Cecilia Bohl de Faber
View AuthorMy criticisms are light and without venom, because there is none in my heart, and I detest it in literature.
Jorge Luis Borges
View AuthorOrganizing libraries is silently practicing the art of criticism.
Edmund Burke
View AuthorA very large part of the evils that afflict the world derive from words.
Robert Burton
View AuthorA word hurts more deeply than a sword.
Valeriu Butulescu
View AuthorCritics see the music and hear the painting.