I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BC
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An irreligious man is not one who denies the gods of the majority, but one who applies to the gods the opinions of the majority. For what most men say about the gods are not ideas derived from sensation, but false opinions, according to which the greatest evils come to the wicked, and the greatest blessings come to the good from the gods.
—Epicurus, c. 250 BCGod is a concept by which we measure our pain.
—John Lennon, 1970The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry to equanimity, receptivity, and peace is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal center of energy.
—William James, 1902It’s only the futility of the first flood that prevents God from sending a second.
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, c. 1794The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCEvery communist must grasp the truth: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
—Mao Zedong, 1938A change in the weather is sufficient to create the world and oneself anew.
—Marcel Proust, c. 1920Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
—Robertson Davies, 1985The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCIn a true democracy, everyone can be upper-class and live in Connecticut.
—Lisa Birnbach, 1980A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.
—The Bible