Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing—the rest is mere sheep herding.
—Ezra Pound, 1934
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The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883It’s your business when your neighbor’s wall is in flames.
—Horace, 19 BCThe most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.
—Paul Johnson, 1989I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
—Michelangelo Antonioni, 1967No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
—Samuel Johnson, 1776If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide—because he kills not merely a man but a near relative—without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself.
—Saint Augustine, c. 420To live outside the law, you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan, 1966Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.
—Isadora Duncan, c. 1902Politics is the art of the possible.
—Otto von Bismarck, 1867Whatever the apparent cause of any riots may be, the real one is always want of happiness.
—Thomas Paine, 1792I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say—your professional poets, I mean—there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.
—Duke of Wellington, c. 1810What is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BC