"Without knowledge, there can be no morality." - Mary Wollstonecraft From her essay, A Vindication of the Rights of Women. • 11x14 inch art pri...
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"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life." - Omar Khayyám This illustration depicts two warring ideas in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám...
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"'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days" - Omar Khayyám Composed in the eleventh century, and translated into English in 1859, The Rubáiyát...
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde From his 1892 play "Lady Windermere's Fan." In our illustration...
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"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Emerson was a prolific essayist and philosopher who led the transcendent...
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"Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A quotation from Ralph Waldo Eme...
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"Trade your cleverness for wonder." - Rumi As literature lovers, we’re the first to champion words that exquisitely describe the nature of things....
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"Out beyond ideas of right and wrong, there is a field. I’ll meet you there." - Rumi A chess board of black and white pieces competing in a zero-s...
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"Nothing vast enters the realm of mortals without a curse." - Sophocles From his play Antigone, on the temptation to sacrifice wisdom at the altar...
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"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." - Soren Kierkegaard This simple observation from Kierkegaard’s journals se...
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"Individuality is more than nationality." - Sui Sin Far From her collection Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian, 1890. Sui Sin Far as ...
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"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity." - Sun Tzu From The Art of War, the Chinese military treatise dating back to the 5th century BC...
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"Knowledge is power." - Thomas Hobbes An official document is stripped of any subversive information, leaving only a simple, self-evident truth. ...
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"When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter, do they?" - Virginia Woolf Sometimes we can all use a little perspecti...
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"Desiring truth, awaiting it, laboriously distilling a few words, forever desiring - truth." - Virginia Woolf, Monday or Tuesday From her first sh...
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"Doubt is unpleasant, but certainty is absurd." - Voltaire Italy had the Renaissance, Germany had the Reformation, and France had Voltaire. Ever th...
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"It is dangerous to be right when the established authorities are wrong." - Voltaire "Il est dangereux d'avoir raison dans des choses où des hommes...
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"The cause of war is preparation for war." - WEB Du Bois An unsuspecting child builds a sandcastle as an impossibly large stockpile of armaments c...
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"All truths wait in all things." - Walt Whitman An image bifurcated into light and dark. Above, a blade of grass lifts as it's caught in the breez...
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"I stop somewhere, waiting for you." - Walt Whitman From Whitman's masterpiece poem Song of Myself in the Leaves of Grass collection. So much has...
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"Some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm." - Willa Cather From her novel The Song of the Lark. In our illustration, an ocean scene i...
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"We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep." - William Shakespeare From Act IV of The Tempest, this lin...
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"There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow." - William Shakespeare From the final act of Hamlet. The entire quote reads:"Not a whit, we...
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