The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
- Plato
It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
- Plato
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
- Plato
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
- Plato
Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours – and I think probably gave me many nightmares.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds …

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
- Bertrand Russell
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
- Bertrand Russell
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
- Bertrand Russell
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous …

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays. Nearly all his writings deal sternly with prevailing social problems, but have a vein of comedy to make their stark themes more palatable. Shaw examined education, marriage, religion, government, health care and class privilege.
George Bernard Shaw Quotes and Sayings
I often quote myself. …