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They say, “We only have the life of this world. We die and we live, and nothing destroys us but time.” Yet, not true knowledge have they of this—only belief.

—The Qur’an, c. 620

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1911

The sick man is the parasite of society.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889

A miracle entails a degree of irrationality—not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.

—Emmanuel Lévinas, 1952

They say that gifts persuade even the gods. 

—Euripides, 431 BC

To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.

—Mikhail Bakunin, 1871

That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.

—Willa Cather, 1918

The world is made of the very stuff of the body.

—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

—John Berger, 1984

Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.

—Thomas Jefferson

Some men never recover from education.

—Oliver St. John Gogarty, 1954

Men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, c. 50 BC

Death keeps no calendar.

—George Herbert, 1640