The celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork.
—Johannes Kepler, 1605
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We never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.
—Richard P. Feynman, 1965Exchange is no robbery.
—German proverbMoney speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
—Aphra Behn, 1677A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
—Aldous Huxley, 1934After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
—John Huston, 1950Casting lots causes contentions to cease, and keeps the mighty apart.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCI have yet, I believe, some years in store, for I have a good state of health and a happy mind, and I take care of both by nourishing the first with temperance and the latter with abundance. This, I believe, you will allow to be the true philosophy of life.
—Thomas Paine, 1803Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame—to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell!
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1843Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
—Robertson Davies, 1985If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.
—David Sedaris, 2004Just to fill the hour—that is happiness.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence, and they think they have seen something.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1843