Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751
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Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.
—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
—Gaston Bachelard, 1960The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
—Sigmund Freud, 1912The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honor or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774For, say they, when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
—Herman Melville, 1851It is noble to die before doing anything that deserves death.
—Anaxandrides, c. 376Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851The oldest voice in the world is the wind.
—Donald Culross Peattie, 1950Seamen are the nearest to death and the furthest from God.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.
—Albert Einstein, 1930There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant, democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839