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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The U.S. presidency is a Tudor monarchy plus telephones.
—Anthony Burgess, 1972The self is like an infant: given free rein, it craves to suckle.
—al-Busiri, c. 1250People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing’s as eternal as the dishes.
—Margaret Mahy, 1985True friendship withstands time, distance, and silence.
—Isabel Allende, 2000One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
—Pindar, c. 450 BCA tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
—Ronald Reagan, 1965A change in the weather is sufficient to create the world and oneself anew.
—Marcel Proust, c. 1920God is alive. Magic is afoot.
—Leonard Cohen, 1966Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.
—Malcolm X, 1964War is sweet to those who don’t know it.
—Erasmus, 1508Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
—John Morley, 1872Punishment is a sort of medicine.
—Aristotle, c. 340 BC