Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.
—Woody Allen, 1979
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Man and animals are really the conduit of food, the sepulcher of animals, and resting place of the dead, one causing the death of the other, making themselves the covering for the corruption of other dead bodies.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500The Mediterranean has the colors of a mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet—you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing light has taken on a tinge of pink or gray.
—Vincent van Gogh, 1888Who lives in fear will never be a free man.
—Horace, 19 BCThe day unravels what the night has woven.
—Walter Benjamin, 1929Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
—William Jennings Bryan, 1899We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
—Oscar Wilde, 1887For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
—C.S. Lewis, 1941He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
—Molière, 1666Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.
—Leo Tolstoy, 1893I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
—Charles Baudelaire, c. 1865