Famous quotes containing the words waste and/or matter:
“Let him read what is proper to him, and not waste his memory on a crowd of mediocrities.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence.... It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one’s rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.”
—Georges Bataille (1897–1962)