They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
—Francis Bacon, 1605
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The world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
—John Brown, 1904The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
—Basho, c. 1690True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
—Edith Wharton, 1924Modern life is often a mechanical oppression, and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1935One great reason why many children abandon themselves wholly to silly sports and trifle away all their time insipidly is because they have found their curiosity baulked and their inquiries neglected.
—John Locke, 1693Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night.
The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
—Yves Saint Laurent, 1978Even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.
—Learned Hand, 1932It is remarkable that only small birds properly sing.
—Charles Darwin, 1871Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787The freedom or immunity from coercion in matters religious, which is the endowment of persons as individuals, is also to be recognized as their right when they act in community. Religious communities are a requirement of the social nature both of man and of religion itself.
—Pope Paul VI, 1965