If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
—Francis Bacon, 1625
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What will not attract a man’s stare at sea?—a gull, a turtle, a flying fish!
—Richard Burton, 1883There’s plenty of fire in the coldest flint!
—Rachel Field, 1939Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
—Cicero, c. 45 BCThe law is not the same at morning and at night.
—George Herbert, c. 1633Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913It is not my design to drink or sleep; my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.
—Oliver Cromwell, 1658The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of bourgeois stupidity.
—Gustave Flaubert, 1871What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCThe main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
—Jean Genet, 1983Some men never recover from education.
—Oliver St. John Gogarty, 1954In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951