Refrigerators and television sets, or even rockets sent to the moon, do not change man into God.
—Czesław Miłosz, 1960
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Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.
—Horace, c. 20 BCThere is only one honest impulse at the bottom of puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.
—H.L. Mencken, 1920What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972I’ve been bathing in the poem / Of star-infused and milky sea / Devouring the azure greens.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1871If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.
—Thomas Paine, 1778If there is a technological advance without a social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
—Michael Harrington, 1962A machine is a slave that neither brings nor bears degradation.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
—Walter Scott, 1823Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.
—The Upanishads, c. 800 BCYou 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 BCCheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverbThe roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BC