Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860
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Our whole life is but one great school; from the cradle to the grave we are all learners; nor will our education be finished until we die.
—Ann Plato, 1841One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
—André Gide, 1926To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.
—Albert Camus, 1951Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
—Bertrand Russell, 1930Nature is immovable.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCRain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain there would be no life.
—John Updike, 1989All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929No wise man ever wished to be younger.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.
—Horace Walpole, 1784Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.
—Pierre Boulez, 1989There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891