Refrigerators and television sets, or even rockets sent to the moon, do not change man into God.
—Czesław Miłosz, 1960
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I said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?”
—Book of Ecclesiastes, 225 BCIt’s the end of the world every day, for someone.
—Margaret Atwood, 2000Ah! Freedom is a noble thing!
—John Barbour, 1375Thanks be to God: since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
—Samuel Pepys, 1662Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth.
—Francis Picabia, 1949An exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.
—Publilius Syrus, 50 BCI don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
—Coretta Scott King, 1994Men argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925I was born without knowing why, I have lived without knowing why, and I am dying without either knowing why or how.
—Pierre Gassendi, 1655Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It’s the glory of the sea that has turned my head.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence university education.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903