August Strindberg Quote

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Franz Kafka

Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.

Barbra Streisand

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

• Nature

Even though I don't personally believe in the Lord, I try to behave as though He was watching.

Christopher Reeve

There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!

Edgar Cayce

Many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.

Peter Weir

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Voltaire

• Virtue

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.

Auguste Renoir

• Listening

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Nature

It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.

James Prescott Joule

• Mind

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Thomas Jefferson

Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.

Paulo Coelho

• Death
• Life

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.

Bertrand Russell

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

Marlon Brando

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

Man Ray

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

Annie Leibovitz

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

Victor Hugo

Watching a person lose their dignity used to be uncomfortable, and now it's an expected part of the program that we're becoming comfortable with.

Lisa Kudrow