Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819
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Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world: it gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. The picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
—Susan B. Anthony, 1896In time history must become a fairy tale—it will become again what it was in the beginning.
—Novalis, c. 1798Disease is not of the body but of the place.
—Latin proverbI know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.
—Elizabeth I, 1588As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
—Abraham Lincoln, c. 1858The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy.
—George Eliot, 1844In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878The gods play games with men as balls.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCWe all have a contract with the public—in us they see themselves, or what they would like to be.
—Clark Gable, 1935In the society of men, the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.
—R.D. Laing, 1967Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.
—Mary Baker Eddy, 1908