Category: Quote of the Day

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. Discuss

Why is it that when you awake to the world of realities you nearly always feel, sometimes very vividly, that the vanished dream has carried with it some enigma which you have failed to solve? Discuss

Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident. Discuss

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. Discuss

It is cruel to discover one’s mediocrity only when it is too late. Discuss

She might hate me, and revile me, and heap indignity after indignity upon me, as she already had, until I should have hated her; but the pitiful fact remained that I loved her. Discuss

You, who are blessed with shade as well as light, you, who are gifted with two eyes, endowed with a knowledge of perspective, and charmed with the enjoyment of various colors, you, who can actually see…the Three Dimensions—how shall I make clear to you the extreme difficulty which we in Flatland experience in recognizing one another’s configuration? Discuss

Thank goodness…I was never sent to school…it would have rubbed off some of the originality. Discuss

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs. Discuss

Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend. Discuss