“I Have Seafoam in My Veins” – Jean Cocteau
“I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.”
Jean Cocteau
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“Living is a horizontal fall” – Jean Cocteau
“Living is a horizontal fall.”
Jean Cocteau
The Little Things in Nature – Quote by Alexander von Humboldt
“Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.”
Alexander von Humboldt
Quote About the Cocoa Bean by Alexander von Humboldt
“At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa bean.”
Alexander von Humboldt
“Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious” – Jean Cocteau
“Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.”
Jean Cocteau
Quote About Finding Your Specialty by Jean Cocteau
“Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.”
Jean Cocteau
“The Artist Is a Kind of Prison” – Quote by Jean Cocteau
“The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.”
Jean Cocteau
Quote About Curiosity and Knowledge by Alexander von Humboldt
“People often say that I’m curious about too many things at once… But can you really forbid a man from harbouring a desire to know and embrace everything that surrounds him?”
Alexander von Humboldt
Truth and the Fool – Quote by Mark Twain
“The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.”
Mark Twain
Ayn Rand on Government, the Constitution, and Individual Rights
“The government was set to protect man from criminals-and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. The Bill of Rights was not directed at private citizens, but against the government-as an explicit declaration that individual rights supersede any public or social power.”
Ayn Rand