I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816
Archive
Quotes
There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.
—Karl Kraus, 1909I am dying with the help of too many physicians.
—Alexander the Great, c. 323 BCThe Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.
—Che Guevara, 1968The money we have is the means to liberty; that which we pursue is the means to slavery.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, c. 1770At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
—George Herbert, 1640Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.
—Simone Weil, 1947Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
—Marcel Marceau, 1958History in its broadest aspect is a record of man’s migrations from one environment to another.
—Ellsworth Huntington, 1919Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
—William James, 1902I went [to war] because I couldn’t help it. I didn’t want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done.
—Louisa May Alcott, 1863The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1962