Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It’s the glory of the sea that has turned my head.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883
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Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
—Camille Paglia, 1992I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool than I am.
—Alice James, 1889The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890Better free in a strange land than a slave at home.
—German proverbThe earth is our existence, and our body is attached to the earth.
—Daulat Qazi, c. 1650There be beasts that, at a year old, observe more, and pursue that which is for their good more prudently, than a child can do at ten.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1651I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.
—Walt Whitman, 1842In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.
—John Ruskin, 1850The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.
—Aristotle, c. 322 BCFor sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret.
—Petronius, c. 60Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.
—Flannery O’Connor, 1964Man’s great mission is not to conquer nature by main force but to cooperate with her intelligently but lovingly for his own purposes.
—Lewis Mumford, 1962