More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880
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The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.
—Aristotle, c. 322 BCWhereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1921But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
—Genesis, c. 900 BCIn the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
—Mark Twain, 1897I think we are inexterminable, like flies and bedbugs.
—Robert Frost, 1959What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
—Alexander Pope, 1712The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.
—Albert Einstein, 1930If both what is before and what is after are in this same “now,” things which happened ten thousand years ago would be simultaneous with what has happened today, and nothing would be before or after anything else.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCAs to the sea itself, love it you cannot. Why should you? I will never believe again the sea was ever loved by anyone whose life was married to it. It is the creation of omnipotence, which is not of humankind and understandable, and so the springs of its behavior are hidden.
—H.M. Tomlinson, 1912Better free in a strange land than a slave at home.
—German proverbI count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul remembering my good friends.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.
—Henry George, 1879