I’ve been bathing in the poem / Of star-infused and milky sea / Devouring the azure greens.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1871
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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, 1910All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
—Edmund Burke, 1796We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1887I never practice, I always play.
—Wanda Landowska, 1953What 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, 1516No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called games.
—W.H. Auden, 1962The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1905No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1860Men are merriest when they are from home.
—William Shakespeare, 1599Nothing 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, 1909On the loftiest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own rump.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580All pain is one malady with many names.
—Antiphanes, c. 400 BC