Cities are the abyss of the human species.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762
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Traveling is like gambling: it is ever connected with winning and losing, and generally where least expected we receive more or less than we hoped for.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1797Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967Being thus arrived in good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stale earth, their proper element.
—William Bradford, 1630Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
—Albert Camus, c. 1940There is no method by which men can be both free and equal.
—Walter Bagehot, 1863Life is no way to treat an animal.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 2005For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1879Wit enables us to act rudely with impunity.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678I went [to war] because I couldn’t help it. I didn’t want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done.
—Louisa May Alcott, 1863The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.
—Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1804Big head, little wit.
—French proverb