I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1679
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We wish away whole years, and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it.
—Joseph Addison, 1711People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence, and they think they have seen something.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1843None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
—Pearl S. Buck, 1943The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883When poets don’t know what to say and have completely given up on the play, just like a finger, they lift the machine and the spectators are satisfied.
—Antiphanes, c. 350 BCArt lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1480One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
—Oscar Wilde, 1894I prefer liberty with unquiet to slavery with quiet.
—Sallust, c. 35 BCI think we are inexterminable, like flies and bedbugs.
—Robert Frost, 1959As man disappears from sight, the land remains.
—Maori proverbWhen they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957Fire destroys that which feeds it.
—Simone Weil, c. 1940