Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925
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Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
—Camille Paglia, 1992He who commands the sea has command of everything.
—Francis Bacon, c. 1600I hate the sight of monkeys; they remind me so of poor relations.
—Henry Luttrell, 1820One should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
—Abraham LincolnNo man has any natural authority over his fellow man.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
—Aldous Huxley, 1925It is impossible to tell which of the two dispositions we find in men is more harmful in a republic, that which seeks to maintain an established position or that which has none but seeks to acquire it.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, c. 1515Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1640If the heavens were all parchment, and the trees of the forest all pens, and every human being were a scribe, it would still be impossible to record all that I have learned from my teachers.
—Jochanan ben Zakkai, c. 75Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one’s home.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
—Francis Bacon, 1625