Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1480
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Is this dying? Is this all? Is this all that I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear it!
—Cotton Mather, 1728I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1789If not us, who? If not now, when?
—Czech slogan, 1989Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
—Helen Keller, 1936Bright youth passes as quickly as thought.
—Theognis, c. 550 BCMan is a tool-using animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1836The civilized man has built a coach but has lost the use of his feet.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841Everybody says it; and what everybody says must be true.
—James Fenimore Cooper, 1844Why is a ship under sail more poetical than a hog in a high wind? The hog is all nature, the ship is all art.
—Lord Byron, 1821My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
—Timothy Leary, 1966Nature never jests.
—Albrecht von Haller, 1751Do you not see how God is praised by those in the heavens and those on earth? The very birds praised Him as they wing their way.
—The Qur’an, c. 620