"No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed."

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“Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils.”

“The world laughs at another man's pain.”

“Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.”

“Virtue lies in the middle ground.”

“No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light.”

“Truth does not need to borrow garments from error.”

Resonant Thoughts

"To a linguist, the phenomenon is familiar: the euphemism treadmill. People invent new "polite" words to refer to emotionally laden or distasteful things, but the euphemism becomes tainted by associati…"

— Steven Pinker

Psychology1954

#friendship

"Oh Muslims! Is my inheritance usurped? Oh son of Abu Quhafa , is it in the Book of Allah that you inherit your father and I do not inherit my father? Surely you have done a strange thing! Did you inte…"

— Hazrat Fatimah (A.S.)

Religion605–632

#family

"There is simply no room left for 'freedom from the tyranny of government' since city dwellers depend on it for food, power, water, transportation, protection, and welfare. Your right to live where you…"

— William S. Burroughs

Literature1914–1997

#freedom

"Thirty percent of Republicans believe the scourge of the Earth is Mexican immigration. What's the reason for why I don't have a job? Well, make, make Mexican immigration the scapegoat for that. I unde…"

— Gary Johnson

Politics1953

#philosophy