Quotes on Aquariums

So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.

It's absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don't want to emulate that.

Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.

This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell in a newly found peace after he decided not to eat animals. Kafka recognized that fish as a member of his invisible family- not as his equal, of course, but as another being that was his concern.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.