In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1787
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Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
—Camille Paglia, 1992It is one thing to slander, another to accuse.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 56 BCThe world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1776The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.
—Albert Einstein, 1930There is a demon who puts wings on certain tales and launches them like eagles out into space.
—Alexandre Dumas, 1846Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.
—Book of Samuel, c. 550 BCTo put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
—Ray Bradbury, 1992No real friendship without absolute liberty.
—George Sand, 1866To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the need for thought.
—Henri Poincaré, 1903It would be madness, and inconsistency, to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means.
—Francis Bacon, 1620Whenever in history equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.
—Mary McCarthy, 1971