For all you lurkers with a low post count

[the GOAT]

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only reality.

 

[the GOAT]

Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the worst man good.

 

[the GOAT]

Genius develops in quiet places, Character out in the full current of human life.

 

[the GOAT]

The major sins are associating other objects of worship with God, disobedience to parents, murder, and deliberate perjury.

 

[the GOAT]

It is not half as important to burn the midnight oil as it is to be awake in the daytime.

 

[the GOAT]

The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.

 

[the GOAT]

Such partings break the heart they fondly hope to heal.

 

[the GOAT]

Man inhabits a realm half in and half out of nature, his mind reaching forever beyond the tool, the uniformity, the law, into some realm which is that of the mind alone.

 

[the GOAT]

Happiness ... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

 

[the GOAT]

Must hunger become anger and anger fury before anything will be done?

 

[the GOAT]

There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

 

[the GOAT]

However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part of me, but a spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you. When the lay, it may be the tragedy, of life is over, the spectator goes his way. It was a kind of fiction, a work of the imagination only, so far as he was concerned.

 

[the GOAT]

I want to know if I can live with what I know, and only than.

 

[the GOAT]

There is no such thing as modern art. There is art and there is advertising.

 

[the GOAT]

They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.

 

[the GOAT]

The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed ... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.

 

[the GOAT]

If you eat a live frog in the morning, nothing worse will happen to either of you for the rest of the day.

 

[the GOAT]

A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power, of ideas, of all human endeavors.

 

[the GOAT]

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

 

[the GOAT]

How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound is forced, the notes are few!