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
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911The sick man is the parasite of society.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889A miracle entails a degree of irrationality—not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.
—Emmanuel Lévinas, 1952They say that gifts persuade even the gods.
—Euripides, 431 BCTo 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, 1871That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.
—Willa Cather, 1918The world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
—John Berger, 1984Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.
—Thomas JeffersonSome men never recover from education.
—Oliver St. John Gogarty, 1954Men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, c. 50 BCDeath keeps no calendar.
—George Herbert, 1640