Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown...

If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown...

Love prefers twilight to daylight

Love prefers twilight to daylight

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.

Death tugs at my ear and says: Live, I am coming.

Death tugs at my ear and says: Live, I am coming.

Old time, in whose banks we deposit our notes, Is a miser who always wants...

Old time, in whose banks we deposit our notes, Is a miser who always wants...

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see...

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see...

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in...

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in...

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility;...

Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility;...

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general...

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general...

Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.

Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness

The bigot is like the pupil of the eye, the more light you put upon...

The bigot is like the pupil of the eye, the more light you put upon...

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit...

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit...

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom...

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom...

From a clear knowledge of the Bhagavad-Gita all the goals of human existence become fulfilled....

From a clear knowledge of the Bhagavad-Gita all the goals of human existence become fulfilled....

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he...

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he...