I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1679
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The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.
—François Guizot, 1830Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
—Roald Dahl, 1990Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.
—Willem de Kooning, 1949Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.
—Susan Sontag, 1963Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion to vice.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, c. 45 BCMachines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile.
—Sharyn McCrumb, 1990The god of music dwelleth out of doors.
—Edith M. Thomas, 1887Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.
—Karl Kraus, 1912I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.
—Elizabeth I, 1588Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCWe should always presume the disease to be curable until its own nature proves it otherwise.
—Peter Mere Latham, c. 1845When the abbot throws the dice, the whole convent will play.
—Martin Luther, c. 1540