What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170
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Imitate the ass in his love to his master.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 388All that we know is nothing can be known.
—Lord Byron, 1812Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1910The only function of a school is to make self-education easier.
—Isaac Asimov, 1974For most of us, nighttime dreaming brings us closer to our identities and our power than any activity in the waking world.
—Walter Mosley, 2000Each night’s new terror drives away the terror of the night before.
—Sophocles, c. 450 BCYou never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
—Cormac McCarthy, 2005Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
—Rosa Luxemburg, 1918Art imitates nature as well as it can, as a pupil follows his master; thus it is a sort of grandchild of God.
—Dante, c. 1315The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870Oligopoly, plutocracy, kleptocracy: All things that are good for a shareholder.
—James J. Cramer, 2006While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1983