Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
—Camille Paglia, 1992
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How like to us is that filthy beast the ape.
—Cicero, 45 BCThere is no art without Eros.
—Max Frisch, 1983Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.
—Winston Churchill, 1939As to the sea itself, love it you cannot. Why should you? I will never believe again the sea was ever loved by anyone whose life was married to it. It is the creation of omnipotence, which is not of humankind and understandable, and so the springs of its behavior are hidden.
—H.M. Tomlinson, 1912Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
—Gertrude Stein, 1914Are we not ourselves nature, nature without end?
—Stanisław Lem, 1961Words pay no debts.
—William Shakespeare, 1601The Mediterranean has the colors of a mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet—you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing light has taken on a tinge of pink or gray.
—Vincent van Gogh, 1888You can steal a lot more with a computer than with a gun.
—Gina Smith, 1997He knows the water best who has waded through it.
—Danish proverbThe most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.
—Albert Einstein, 1930If my books had been any worse I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better I should not have come.
—Raymond Chandler, 1945