Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962
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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
—Gertrude Stein, 1940The less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
—Sigmund Freud, 1927Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, / And say my glory was I had such friends.
—W.B. Yeats, 1937Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
—Charles F. Kettering, 1946At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850Because the newer methods of treatment are good, it does not follow that the old ones were bad: for if our honorable and worshipful ancestors had not recovered from their ailments, you and I would not be here today.
—Confucius, c. 515 BCMen argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
—Cicero, c. 45 BCDrugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.
—Mary Baker Eddy, 1908I am a friend of the workingman, and I would rather be his friend than be one.
—Clarence Darrow, 1932