Quotes by : Iain Pears

Politics bores you?" Bronsen said.Julien smiled. "It does. Apologies, sir, and it is not that I haven't....

For, in his opinion, to study nature was a form of worship.

Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted....

Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar....

For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and....

[Pope] Clement waved his hands in irritation as if to dismiss the very idea. "The world is crumbling....

Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature.....

[T]he concern of man is not his future but his present, not the world but his soul. We must be just,....

Civilization depends on continually making the effort, of never giving in. It needs to be cared for by....

Caius was one of those who gloried in his ignorance, called his lack of letters purity, scorned any subtlety....