The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1962
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Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
—Herbert Hoover, 1936My 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, 1966Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.
—The Upanishads, c. 800 BCBy nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
—Confucius, c. 500 BCThe body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939Memory is like the moon, which hath its new, its full, and its wane.
—Margaret Cavendish, 1655Men argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1655The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957In the country gossip is a pastime; in the city it is a warfare.
—W.M.L. Jay, 1870Some things are privileged from jest—namely, religion, matters of state, great persons, all men’s present business of importance, and any case that deserves pity.
—Francis Bacon, 1597