There is no art without Eros.
—Max Frisch, 1983
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
—B.F. Skinner, 1964Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.
—William James, 1902Colonialism has meant selling our ore and being left with the holes.
—Samora Moisés Machel, c. 1976Suffering has its limit, but fears are endless.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 108How like to us is that filthy beast the ape.
—Cicero, 45 BCChildhood knows what it wants—to leave childhood behind.
—Jean Cocteau, 1947A real leader is somebody who can help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.
—David Foster Wallace, 2000We and the dead ride quick at night.
—Gottfried August Bürger, 1773I am weary of friends, and friendships are all monsters.
—Jonathan Swift, 1710Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other both in mind and body, to try the manners of different nations, to hear the chimes at midnight.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881Every house: temple, empire, school.
—Joseph Joubert, 1800Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
—Alexander Pope, 1738