Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939
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It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.
—Aldous Huxley, 1925Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839Television is democracy at its ugliest.
—Paddy Chayefsky, 1976We are as near to heaven by sea as by land!
—Humphrey Gilbert, 1583The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1908The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty, and death of public opinion.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1902In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
—V.S. Pritchett, 1968Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987He who sings frightens away his ills.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.
—Cleanthes, c. 250 BCWhat does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1850