Tom Shakespeare

Within your own house dwells the treasure of joy: so why do you go begging from door to door?

Sufi saying

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking

Georg Lichtenberg

To discover relationships and similarities between things that no one else sees. Wit can in this way lead to invention.

Georg Lichtenberg

We see only what we look for. We look for only what we know.

J W von Goethe

It is incredible how useful a new drawer can be, suitably located in our filing cabinet.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Realism doesn’t consist in reproducing reality, but in showing how things really are.

Bertolt Brecht

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

Isaiah Berlin

Of doctor and poet, musician and madman, we each have some trace.

Mexican proverb

Helping is not socialised masochism and the helper has also a right to satisfaction, joy and love from the process.

David Brandon

Professionals tell you what you need, and claim the power to proscribe. They not only recommend what is good,but actually ordain what is right.

Ivan Illich