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Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.
Voltaire, pen name of François-Marie Arouet NULL
The real vice of a civilized republic is in the Turkish fable of the dragon with man heads and the dragon with many tails. The many heads hurt each other, and the many tails obey a single head which wants to devour everything.
Bigotry has no head and cannot think, no heart and cannot feel.
David Grayson, pseudonym of Ray Stannard Baker
Happiness, she loves to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not is palaces but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.
David Grayson, pseudonym of Ray Stannard Baker
Happiness is a rebound from hard work. One of the follies of man is to assume that he can enjoy mere emotion. As well try to eat beauty. Happiness must be tricked. She loves to see men work. She loves sweat, weariness, self-sacrifice. She will not be found in the palaces, but lurking in cornfields and factories, and hovering over littered desks. She crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.
Beauty | Man | Men | Sacrifice | Self | Self-sacrifice | Will | Work | Happiness |
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
A young man, to achieve, must first get out of his head any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing just happens in this world; everything is brought about. Success never comes to a man of its own volition; it will meet a man halfway, but it will never come to him all the way.
Friedrich Nietzsche, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Art raises its head where creeds relax.
George Berkeley, also Bishop Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne
That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.
Henry David Thoreau, born David Henry Thoreau
It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.