Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Ends and MeansTo know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
Essential Thinkers - SocratesThe fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.
A Modern UtopiaIncreasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil.
Robert GottliebConfession: I don't want to be one of my characters. I'm mean to them sometimes. Really mean.
Michelle M. PillowRespectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
Thomas MannI have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.
Lynn Barber