The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
—Joseph Addison, 1711I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844The young man must store up, the old man must use.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 63The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1776The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
—Bertrand Russell, 1938Fire destroys that which feeds it.
—Simone Weil, c. 1940The world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called games.
—W.H. Auden, 1962To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the need for thought.
—Henri Poincaré, 1903The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.
—Mario Puzo, 2001Business? Why, it’s very simple; business is other people’s money.
—Alexandre Dumas, 1857Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC