💬 Quotes

"Language is not merely an instrument for the communication of thought, but an essential instrument of thought itself; without the aid of signs, our abstract ideas could neither be fixed nor reasoned upon with any degree of precision."

"Memory is deeply intertwined with the laws of association; we do not recall the past by chance, but according to established connections of contiguity, resemblance, and causation which give order to the stream of consciousness."

"And it is not only the motor areas that are involved, but the emotional areas, the limbic system, with all its depth and resonance. Music can move us to tears or to laughter, but it can also move us to action."

"What we musicophiles go through is simply a more intense version of what most people experience. For we are all musicophiles to some degree."

"An ear for music is a strange thing. Modern biology would tell us that music is mere noise, an evolutionary byproduct, an auditory cheesecake; yet it touches the deepest levels of our minds."

"Common to all these cases is the power of music to bridge impairments, to bypass the damaged pathways of the brain and reach the self intact."

"Musical imagery, or 'earworms,' can be benign and transient, or they can be persistent and intrusive, sometimes dominating a person's consciousness to the point of torment."

"In amusia, the world of music simply ceases to exist; melodies are perceived merely as random, meaningless noises, devoid of emotional resonance or structure."

"My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break."

"Such duty as the subject owes the prince, even such a woman oweth to her husband."

"No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; in brief, sir, study what you most affect."

"I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; if wealthily, then happily in Padua."

"Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, thy head, thy sovereign."

"To cart her rather: she's too rough for me."

"Knowledge unfettered makes a man unfit to be a slave."

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

"You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a man was made a free man."

"Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave is not liked by masters."

"I found that to set a true value on any liberty, it was necessary that I should be subjected to some privations. I was now about to begin a journey in the dark."

"Conscience cannot stand much violence. Once let the blood of a man be spilt on the ground, and the conscience, after a time, gets hardened."