Like a broken gong be still, be silent. Know the stillness of freedom where there is no more striving.
—Siddhartha Gautama, c. 500 BC
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To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
—Walter Pater, 1873I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BCMen who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
—Bertrand Russell, 1930Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies.
—H.L. Mencken, 1925The highest result of education is tolerance.
—Helen Keller, 1903Man’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, 1962God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
—John Lennon, 1970Words pay no debts.
—William Shakespeare, 1601I am a living symbol of the white man’s fear.
—Winnie Mandela, 1985All the married heiresses I have known have shipwrecked.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880Give us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1966The life of a sailor is very unhealthy.
—Francis Galton, 1883