Date: 1854
"Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought."
preview | full record— Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Date: 1854
"What was the meaning of that South-Sea Exploring Expedition, with all its parade and expense, but an indirect recognition of the fact, that there are continents and seas in the moral world to which every man is an isthmus or an inlet, yet unexplored by him, but that it is easier to sail many tho...
preview | full record— Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Date: 1854
"While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?"
preview | full record— Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Date: October 10, 1869
"Recitations alone readily degenerate into dusty repetitions, and lectures alone are too often a useless expenditure of force. The lecturer pumps laboriously into sieves. The water may be wholesome, but it runs through."
preview | full record— Eliot, Charles William (1834-1926)
Date: 1911
"The crystalloid minds are all that's clear, orderly, and beautiful."
preview | full record— Lewis, Edwin Herbert (1866-1938)
Date: 1911
"The colloid minds are sticky, glutinous, and mussy."
preview | full record— Lewis, Edwin Herbert (1866-1938)
Date: 1918
"He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it."
preview | full record— Eliot, T. S. (1888-1965)
Date: 1936
"The monarch of the mind is a monkey wrench."
preview | full record— Miller, Henry (1891-1980)
Date: 1960
"Physical things generally, however remote, become known to us only through the effects which they help induce at our sensory surfaces."
preview | full record— Quine, W. V. O. (1908-2000)
Date: August, 1963
"But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick, brutalize, and even kill your black brothers and sisters with impunity; when you see the vast majority of your twenty mill...
preview | full record— King, Martin Luther [Michael] (1929-1968)