Weblog of Quotes and Rants

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles

- George Jean Nathan

Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

- Ambrose Bierce

Music is essentially useless, as life is.

- George Santayana

I really liked this turn of phrase, from an interesting article on Africa

His face was etched with a kind of wisdom that comes at a price

- Alexandra Fuller