An irreligious man is not one who denies the gods of the majority, but one who applies to the gods the opinions of the majority. For what most men say about the gods are not ideas derived from sensation, but false opinions, according to which the greatest evils come to the wicked, and the greatest blessings come to the good from the gods.
—Epicurus, c. 250 BC
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The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.
—Che Guevara, 1968Today’s friend may be tomorrow’s foe.
—Sophocles, 440 BCOcean. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man—who has no gills.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo.
—Matsuo Basho, c. 1685Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know.
—Albert Camus, 1942Life is the art of being well deceived.
—William Hazlitt, c. 1817Whole nations have melted away like balls of snow before the sun.
—Dragging Canoe, 1775A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
—George Eliot, 1876Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
—Edith Wharton, 1924Those who are awake have a world that is one and common, but each of those who are asleep turns aside into his own particular world.
—Heraclitus, c. 500 BCInsurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
—Wendell Phillips, 1859