The secrets of the Egyptians were secrets also for the Egyptians themselves. Slavoj Zizek, In Defense of Lost Causes...
You may be able to convince me that I am wrong, but you can’t tell me that I am wrong without convincing me. Fidel Castro to Nikita Khruschev during the Caribbean crisis...
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself. André Gide, a French author. x...
The sentimental tourist sole quarrely with his Venice is that he has too many competitors there. He likes to be alone; to be original; to have (to himself, at least) the air of making discoveries. The...
Those who say I paint too quickly watch me too quickly. Vincent Van Gogh...
Vision surges in front of you. You must seize this vision with the brush, because it can disappear suddenly, as the hare when the hunter approaches. Su Dongpo (Su Shi), a Chinese poet. The popularity...
To be born a writer, one must learn to like privation, suffering, humiliation. Above all, one must learn to live apart. Like the sloth, the writer clings to his limb while beneath him life surges by s...
Commonly regarded as “the father of Advertising”, David Ogilvy was an avis rara at the time when being different was very new, not a mandatory practice. To be a Scotsman who went on to bec...
3rd of January is Marcus Tullius Cicero 2117’s birthday anniversary, and one of his aphorisms is partly quoted in the post’s title: There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of k...
When I was still at the academia, I did a bit of research into the speeches from the scaffold. I studied 16th century, as you know, and it registered only few examples thereof. The interest was sparke...