Andrew

“I regret not, sir. I cannot lay claim to that distinction. I am the Superintendent of the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. Dr. Minor is an American, and he is one of our longest-staying inmates. He committed a murder. He is quite insane.”
― Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman

“The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.”
― John Ruskin, Modern Painters: Volume 3. Of Many Things

“Think simple, Murray kept insisting: Think simple.”
― Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman

“that “meaning” in these traditions has very little to do with what people find meaningful in their lives.”
― George Lakoff, Metaphors We Live By