There is something stirring in the way civilization gapes like a savage at the achievements of nature.
—Karl Kraus, 1909
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I am sure of this: that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now.
—Jane Austen, c. 1798An ugly sight, a man who’s afraid.
—Jean Anouilh, 1944Till taught by pain, / Men really know not what good water’s worth.
—Lord Byron, 1819It’s the end of the world every day, for someone.
—Margaret Atwood, 2000The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1983Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.
—Thomas JeffersonThe body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985A change in the weather is sufficient to create the world and oneself anew.
—Marcel Proust, c. 1920How sad a sight is human happiness to those whose thoughts can pierce beyond an hour!
—Edward Young, 1741The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825Most authors seek fame, but I seek for justice—a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.
—Davy Crockett, 1834The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851