Sahil Gupta

ReasonMetaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.BRADLEY, FRANCIS HERBERTShe just wore enough for modesty—no more.BUCHANAN, ROBERT WILLIAMSFor every why he had a wherefore.BUTLER, SAMUELHe knew what’s what, and that’s as high As metaphysics wit can fly.BUTLER, SAMUELAll beauteous things for which we liveBy laws of time and space decayBut […]

QuestionI hate and love. Why I do it, perhaps you ask. I know not, but I feel it and am tortured.CATULLUS, GAIUS VALERIUSO say! What is that thing called Light, Which I can never enjoy?CIBBER, COLLEYIn an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.RALEIGH, SIR WALTER ALEXANDERWhat

PastI reject the monstrous theory that while a man may redeem the past a woman never can.CAINE, SIR THOMAS HENRY HALLI have had playmates, I have had companions,In my days of childhood, in my joyful schooldaysAll, all are gone the old familiar faces.LAMB, CHARLESThings past redress are now with me past care.SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAMO, if Jupiter

OpinionSuch and so various are the tastes of men.AKENSIDE, MARKI am my own ancestor.JUNOT, ANDOCHEOld friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.SELDEN, JOHNI have boughtGolden opinions from all sorts of people.SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAMWith the single of exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not

NationPeace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.JEFFERSON, THOMASHow much more are men than nations!Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is because nations tend to stupidity and baseness thatmankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have acapacity for better things that it moves at all.George GissingThere is no such thing as a little

MajorityDecision by majorities is as much an expendient as lighting by gas.GLADSTONE, WILLIAM, EWARTA mojority can do anything.Joseph G. CannonOne with the law is majority.Calvin CoolidgeOne and God make a majority.Frederick DouglassThe oppression of a majority is detestable and odious: the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.William Ewart

LabourThe insupportable labour of doing nothing.STEELE, SIR RICHARDSo do you bees make honey, not for yourselves.VIRGILThere is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime.Calvin CoolidgeEmployment is nature’s physician, and is essential to human happiness.GalenDon’t waste any time mourning—organize!Joe HillEach needs the other; capital cannot do without labour, nor labour without

KindnessIt is difficult to tell how much men’s minds are conciliated by a kind manner and a gentle speech.CiceroHe who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.ConfuciusA kindness loses its grace by being noised abroad,Who desires it to be remembered should forget it.Pierre ConrneilleTo cultivate kindness is a valuable part

JealousyAn amiable weakness.FIELDING, HENRYHe was worse than provincial—he was parochial.JAMES, HENERYJealousy is a tiger that tears not only its prey but also its own raging heart.Michael BeerAnger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of theirobjects than love.George EliotLove is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave.Song of SolomonThough jealousy be

IdealismNo folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.Winston ChurchillMan is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.Oliver Wendell HolmesAn idealist is one who, on

HabitIt is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.CROMWELL, OLIVERHabit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.Augustine O HippoHabit is a sort of second nature.CiceroIt seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing

GardensA sensitive plant in a garden grew,And the young winds fed it with silver dew.SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHEWho loves a garden still his Eden keeps.Amos Bronson AlcottThe Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom He had formed.Old TestamentMany things grow in the garden that were never sowed there.ProverbGenerosityTrue

FactsIt beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is higher than vanity.BUNYAN, JOHNFacts alone are wanted in life.DICKENS, CHARLESNone but the brave deserves the fair.DRYDEN, JOHNWonders will never cease.DUDLEY, SIR HENRY BATEThe tide turns at low water as well as at high.ELLIS, HENRY HAVELOCKThe axis of the earth sticks

EconomyIf people starve what are they to do? Judges and magistrateswaxeloquent about the increase of crime; but are blind to theobvious economic causes of it.Jawahar lal NehruToo often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.Franklin D. RooseveltThe life and spirit of the American economy is progress and expansion.Harry

DangerDangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.Richard BaxterDanger, the spur of all great minds.George ChapmanAs soon as there is life there is danger.Ralph Waldo EmersonGreat perils have this beauty, that they bring to light thefraternity of strangers.Victor HugoOut of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.ShakespeareBetter face a danger once than be always