Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962
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What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949A dog starved at his master’s gate / Predicts the ruin of the state.
—William Blake, 1807I can’t see (or feel) the conflict between love and religion. To me they’re the same thing.
—Elizabeth Bowen, c. 1970Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men, but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
—Joseph Addison, 1711A monument is money wasted. My memory will live on if my life has deserved it.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 109Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.
—Jeremy Bentham, c. 1832Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
—Kin HubbardThe mere existence of nuclear weapons by the thousands is an incontrovertible sign of human insanity.
—Isaac Asimov, 1988In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
—V.S. Pritchett, 1968Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.
—William James, 1902The art of invention grows young with the things invented.
—Francis Bacon, 1605