I’ve dreamed enough to have a drink.
—François Rabelais, 1546
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See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.
—Robert Burton, c. 1620The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry to equanimity, receptivity, and peace is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal center of energy.
—William James, 1902Just to fill the hour—that is happiness.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844Our entire history is merely the history of the waking life of man; nobody has yet considered the history of his sleeping life.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, c. 1780Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
—William Hazlitt, 1821Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
—Jane Austen, 1811The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.
—Aristotle, c. 322 BCThe nature of God is a circle, of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
—Empedocles, c. 450 BCReminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1886The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911The past is always tense and the future, perfect.
—Zadie Smith, 2000In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937