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I’ve been bathing in the poem / Of star-infused and milky sea / Devouring the azure greens.

—Arthur Rimbaud, 1871

Religion! How it dominates man’s mind, how it humiliates and degrades his soul. God is everything, man is nothing, says religion. But out of that nothing God has created a kingdom so despotic, so tyrannical, so cruel, so terribly exacting that naught but gloom and tears and blood have ruled the world since gods began.

—Emma Goldman, 1910

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

—Edmund Burke, 1796

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1887

I never practice, I always play.

—Wanda Landowska, 1953

What delight can there be, and not rather displeasure, in hearing the barking and howling of dogs? Or what greater pleasure is there to be felt when a dog followeth a hare than when a dog followeth a dog?

—Thomas More, 1516

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called games.

—W.H. Auden, 1962

The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.

—Eugene V. Debs, 1905

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1860

Men are merriest when they are from home.

—William Shakespeare, 1599

Nothing is more narrow-minded than chauvinism or racial hatred. To me all men are equal; there are flatheads everywhere and I despise them all equally.

—Karl Kraus, 1909

On the loftiest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own rump.

—Michel de Montaigne, 1580

All pain is one malady with many names.

—Antiphanes, c. 400 BC