The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010
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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
—Saint Augustine, c. 400A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.
—Martin Luther King Jr., c. 1967How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!
—Anthony Trollope, 1859Man and animals are really the conduit of food, the sepulcher of animals, and resting place of the dead, one causing the death of the other, making themselves the covering for the corruption of other dead bodies.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500Avoid the law—the first loss is generally the least.
—Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee, 1844All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.
—Max Born, 1968What hath night to do with sleep?
—John Milton, 1637To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1885I had rather be in a state of misery and envied for my supposed happiness than in a state of happiness and pitied for my supposed misery.
—Elizabeth Inchbald, 1793Travelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.
—Richard Brathwaite, 1631True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
—Edith Wharton, 1924