By night an atheist half believes a God.
—Edward Young, c. 1745
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Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, “I would stay here and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.”
—Lisa St. Aubin de Terán, 1989We don’t have the option of turning away from the future. No one gets to vote on whether technology is going to change our lives.
—Bill Gates, 1995How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!
—Anthony Trollope, 1859Keep no company with those whose position is high but whose morals are low.
—Ge Hong, c. 320One is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one hopes.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1664How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do.
—William James, 1902Society as a whole must be converted into a gigantic school.
—Che Guevara, 1965Communities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1863To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1480I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
—Brigitte Bardot, 1989Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them.
—Charles Lamb, 1810