Solon Quotes
Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
Solon
Quotes to Explore
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A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.
A. R. Ammons
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Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity.
Warren De la Rue
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Whether we eat, sleep, work, play, whatever we do life contains dissatisfaction, pain. If we enjoy pleasure, we are afraid to lose it; we strive for more and more pleasure or try to contain it. If we suffer pain we want to escape it. We experience dissatisfaction all the time. All activities contain dissatisfaction or pain, continuously.
Chogyam Trungpa
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Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.
Aristotle
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Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.
Thomas Hobbes
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It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
Albert Einstein
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To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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That morning I realized I would probably spend the rest of my professional life trying to unravel the mysteries of trauma. How do horrific experiences cause people to become hopelessly stuck in the past? What happens in people’s minds and brains that keeps them frozen, trapped in a place they desperately wish to escape?
Bessel van der Kolk
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The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
Moliere
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To have more, you must first be more.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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As a child, I did watch some Hindi movies at home with Dad, but I didn't know who anyone was. I wasn't interested, honestly.
Nargis Fakhri
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Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
Solon
