The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
—William Blake, 1793
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The nature of God is a circle, of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
—Empedocles, c. 450 BCReason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
—George Washington, 1796Music sweeps by me as a messenger / Carrying a message that is not for me.
—George Eliot, 1868I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.
—James Joyce, 1922The world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy.
—George Eliot, 1844You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
—Joseph Conrad, 1900In revolutions men fall and rise. Long before this war is over, much as you hear me praised now, you may hear me cursed and insulted.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1864Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
—Mao Zedong, 1938A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1897A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1732