The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.
—Albert Einstein, 1930
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A real leader is somebody who can help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.
—David Foster Wallace, 2000To hide and feel guilty would be the beginning of defeat.
—Milan Kundera, 1978How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do.
—William James, 1902If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.
—Charles M. Allen, 1967Sooner or later if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere, it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.
—Edith Hamilton, 1930Education—a debt due from present to future generations.
—George Peabody, 1852I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.
—John Maynard Keynes, 1917Journalists belong in the gutter, because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.
—Gerald Priestland, 1988A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.
—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
—Alice Hegan Rice, 1917Repetition is the mother of education.
—Jean Paul, 1807