Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
—Joseph Joubert, 1811
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Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the inclination of your heart and the desire of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 200 BCHe alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870How like to us is that filthy beast the ape.
—Cicero, 45 BCMen, my dear, are very queer animals—a mixture of horse nervousness, ass stubbornness, and camel malice.
—T. H. Huxley, 1895The dead are often just as living to us as the living are, only we cannot get them to believe it. They can come to us, but till we die we cannot go to them. To be dead is to be unable to understand that one is alive.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1888Most men employ the first years of their life in making the last miserable.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688God never sent a messenger save with the language of his folk, that he might make the message clear for them.
—The Qur’an, c. 620The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
—Bertrand Russell, 1938Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 30 BCThe men of today are born to criticize; of Achilles they see only the heel.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
—Alvin Toffler, 1970