Language
"Language is a virus from outer space." - William S. Burroughs
"Language exists to conceal true thought." - Tallyrand
"… if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought." - George Orwell, Politics and the English Language, pub. 1946
"A…
Laugh
"Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at." - Goethe
"You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance." - W. Somerset Maugham
"You grow up on the day you have…
Laughter
"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter." - Mark Twain
"Laughter liberates not only from external censorship, but first of all from the great interior censor; it liberates from… fear of the sacred, of prohibitions,…
Laughter Kills
"A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man." - Gustave Flaubert
"Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need…
Laughter of God
"He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh." - The Koran
"Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God." - Karl Barth
"I have never made but one prayer to God , a very short one: "O Lord,…
Laughter of the Gods
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods." - Albert Einstein
"Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods." - Japanese Proverb
"The gods…
Laws
"The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter." - James Clerk Maxwell
"I simply believe that some part of the human soul is not…
Library
"Man, the imperfect librarian, may be the product of chance or of malevolent demiurgi; the universe, with its elegant endowment of shelves, of enigmatical volumes, of inexhaustible stairways for the traveler and latrines for the seated librarian, can only be…
Life
"Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans." - John Lennon
"Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life…
Lighten
"To be a man of knowledge one needs to be light and fluid." - Yaqui Mystic
"Christianity came into existence in order to lighten the heart; but now it has to burden the heart first, in order to lighten it…
Limits
"The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for." - Ludwig Wittgenstein
"Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world." - Arthur Schopenhauer…
Listening
"I know perfectly well that at this moment the whole universe is listening to us, and that every word we say echoes to the remotest star." - Jean Giraudoux, The Madwoman of Chaillot
"Everything has been said before, but since…
Logic
"The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories, its law-courts and its universities. The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon…
Love
"The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral." - George Santayana, 1863-1952
"Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the…
Lust
"Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust." - Marquis De Sade, 1740-1814
"When a woman wants…
