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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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1921Do you not see how God is praised by those in the heavens and those on earth? The very birds praised Him as they wing their way.
—The Qur’an, c. 620In time history must become a fairy tale—it will become again what it was in the beginning.
—Novalis, c. 1798We must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.
—John Winthrop, 1630To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.
—Charles Lamb, 1833I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be a Catholic) how to act and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote.
—John F. Kennedy, 1960Most vegetarians I ever saw looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
—Finley Peter Dunne, 1900Jesters do oft prove prophets.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1605O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.
—Horace, c. 8 BCRebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1776I wants to make your flesh creep.
—Charles Dickens, 1837No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978