Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1973
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Idolatry is the mother of all games.
—Novatian, c. 255What experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1830Anything one is remembering is a repetition, but existing as a human being that is being, listening, and hearing is never repetition.
—Gertrude Stein, 1935Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1939One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.
—Julia Child, 2001The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
—Hannah Arendt, 1970I am sure of this: that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now.
—Jane Austen, c. 1798Attend to earth,
for it is to earth that kings are truly wedded.
Knowledge itself is power.
—Francis Bacon, 1597In the society of men, the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.
—R.D. Laing, 1967Childhood knows what it wants—to leave childhood behind.
—Jean Cocteau, 1947I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.
—Gregory VII, c. 1085