[William Blake - "Clarence's Dream", 1774 (Shakespeare, Richard III, Act 1, Scene 4)]

"Modern capitalism needs men who cooperate smoothly in large numbers, who want to consume more and more and whose tastes are standardized."

"Whether or not we are aware of it, there is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves."

[Quotes] "People are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things."

[African Spir : Quotes / Citations]

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Moonlight, a Study at Millbank (Clair de lune, étude à Millbank), 1797 * Fishermen at Sea (Pêcheurs en mer), 1796 * Buttermere Lake, a...

Snake Goddess from the palace at Knossos, c. 1600 BC

"Women reading" - various paintings by Carl Vilhelm Holsøe.

“Turn round,” said the merchant, suddenly catching up the lamp in order to light up the opposite wall. “Look at that leathern skin...”

"I love the stillness of the wood / I love the music of the rill / I love to couch in pensive mood / Upon some silent hill."

"Of three metamorphoses of the spirit do I tell you: how the spirit becomes a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion at last a child."

"One cold winter's day, a number of porcupines huddled together quite closely in order to prevent themselves from being frozen..."

Statue of the Goddess Bastet, 26th Dynasty, Egypt "It is in Ancient Egypt where the cat flourished..."

"And you dear friend, what are you doing at this hour ? Grubbing also, alone also... ?"

Camille Pissarro - Le jardin des Tuileries, effet de neige (1900) "The Garden of Tuileries, Snow Effect" Camille Pissarro - Le Louvre...

"The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth."

"Aside I turn to the holy, unspeakable, mysterious Night. Afar lies the world, sunk in a deep grave; waste and lonely is its place."

"Passer-by. — Almanacs for the New Year ? / Alm. Seller. — Yes, Sir. / Passer-by. — Do you think this New Year will be a happy one ?"

"The Dürer coat-of-arms is both an ideogram for “Gateway in Heaven” and a rebus for “I engrave the gateway”..."

"Up to this period it had been his custom to dine at a table d'hôte. But he now began to keep house himself..."

"At last, becoming a complete misanthrope, he used to live spending his time in walking about the mountains; feeding on grasses and plants."

"When he was asked what advantage he had ever derived from philosophy, he replied: “The advantage of being able to converse with myself"."