There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal, than this race for profit.
—Helen Keller, 1928
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Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978It is a certain sign of a wise government and proceeding, when it can hold men’s hearts by hopes, when it cannot by satisfaction.
—Francis Bacon, 1625If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706If one hears bad music, it is one’s duty to drown it by conversation.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
—D.H. Lawrence, 1920Are we not ourselves nature, nature without end?
—Stanisław Lem, 1961Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.
—David Hume, 1742All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890I’ve dreamed enough to have a drink.
—François Rabelais, 1546The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.
—Aristotle, c. 322 BCThe sea serves the pirate as well as the trader.
—Prudentius, c. 405