Happiness does not dwell in herds, nor yet in gold.
—Democritus, c. 420 BC
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The dead are often just as living to us as the living are, only we cannot get them to believe it. They can come to us, but till we die we cannot go to them. To be dead is to be unable to understand that one is alive.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1888He who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.
—E. R. Dodds, 1951The less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
—Sigmund Freud, 1927The first mistake of art is to assume that it’s serious.
—Lester Bangs, 1971What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1850Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.
—Arthur Wellesley, c. 1830Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
—D.H. Lawrence, 1920I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
—Ray Bradbury, 1992There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.
—Eleanor Robson Belmont, 1957Everything that has wings is beyond the reach of the law.
—Joseph Joubert, 1791As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
—Charles Darwin, 1859Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.
—Isadora Duncan, c. 1902