Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
Matt Cameron, Musician (1962) |
Joe Dante, Director (1946) |
Alistair Darling, Politician (1953) |
Friedrich Engels, Philosopher (1820) |
Carol Gilligan, Psychologist (1936) |
Ed Harris, Actor (1950) |
Gary Hart, Politician (1936) |
Matsuo Basho, Poet (1694) |
Enrico Fermi, Physicist (1954) |
Washington Irving, Writer (1859) |