The law is far, the fist is near.
—Korean proverb
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In 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, 1967Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906The only equals are those who are equally rich.
—Burundian proverbThe young leading the young is like the blind leading the blind.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it, and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1790I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1928Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605I don’t believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there’s one thing that’s dangerous for an artist, it’s precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.
—Federico Fellini, c. 1950You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.
—Walter Lippmann, 1913The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615Water has many ways of reminding us that when we are in it we are out of our element.
—Christopher Hitchens, 2008