One need merely visit the marketplace and the graveyard to determine whether a city is in both physical and metaphysical order.
—Ernst Jünger, 1977
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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1928The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.
—Francis Bacon, 1605He who would be happy should stay at home.
—Greek proverbNo nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.
—Isadora Duncan, c. 1902A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence university education.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903You must not grow used to making money out of everything. One sees more people ruined than one has seen preserved by shameful gains.
—Sophocles, c. 442 BCThere is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
—Anthony Trollope, 1862For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
—Albert Einstein, 1936The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949