Life’s no resting, but a moving.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1795
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Those from whom we were born have long since departed, and those with whom we grew up exist only in memory. We, too, through the approach of death, become, as it were, trees growing on the sandy bank of a river.
—Bhartrihari, c. 400Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.
—Rudy Giuliani, 1999Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCIf you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.
—William Blake, 1804Whatsoever is, is in God.
—Benedict de Spinoza, 1677What harm is there in getting knowledge and learning, were it from a sot, a pot, a fool, a winter mitten, or an old slipper?
—François Rabelais, 1533There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.
—Eleanor Robson Belmont, 1957Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
—Thomas Mann, 1924In the society of men, the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.
—R.D. Laing, 1967What a glut of books! Who can read them? As already, we shall have a vast chaos and confusion of books; we are oppressed with them, our eyes ache with reading, our fingers with turning.
—Robert Burton, 1621A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1852Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.
—The Dhammapada, c. 400 BC