That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.
With out some kind of god, man is not very intresting
A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.
Distracted from distraction by distraction
The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.
It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.