Joe M

“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between

“Abstract people have an immortality which flesh-and-blood people have yet to achieve.”
― Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Society

“Some people belong entirely to others… They have not a day, not an hour to call their own, so completely do they give themselves to others. This is true even in matters of understanding. Some people know everything for others and nothing for themselves.”
― Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom