The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BC
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Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.
—Karl Kraus, 1912Whenever in history equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.
—Mary McCarthy, 1971I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.
—Gregory VII, c. 1085The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
—Horace, c. 25 BCFame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experienced, but that’s not where I live.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962We never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.
—Richard P. Feynman, 1965One need merely visit the marketplace and the graveyard to determine whether a city is in both physical and metaphysical order.
—Ernst Jünger, 1977Like a broken gong be still, be silent. Know the stillness of freedom where there is no more striving.
—Siddhartha Gautama, c. 500 BCTime is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.
—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
—Walter Scott, 1823Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he cannot alter its construction, raise the wind, or stop the waves from swelling beneath his feet.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835