The Truth of the World

We mean all sort of things, I know, by Beauty. But the essential advantage for a poet is not to have a beautiful world with which to deal: it is to be able to see beneath both beauty and ugliness; to see the boredom, and the horror, and the glory.--T.S. Eliot

Like Aslan's Country

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. --Kurt Vonnegut

A revolution in the mind

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. --Victor Hugo

A Magnanimous Man

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.-- Albert Camus