My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
—Timothy Leary, 1966
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Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
—Denis Diderot, 1774A bull contents himself with one meadow, and one forest is enough for a thousand elephants; but the little body of a man devours more than all other living creatures.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 64It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857If you stain clear water with filth, you will never find a drink.
—Aeschylus, 458 BCOne must love people a good deal whom one takes pains to convince or instruct.
—Mary de la Riviere Manley, 1720A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.
—Susan Sontag, 1977Language is the armory of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1817War is the child of pride, and pride the daughter of riches.
—Jonathan Swift, 1697Why is a ship under sail more poetical than a hog in a high wind? The hog is all nature, the ship is all art.
—Lord Byron, 1821Hang work! I wish that all the year were holiday; I am sure that Indolence—indefeasible Indolence—is the true state of man.
—Charles Lamb, 1805What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841