A functioning police state needs no police.
—William S. Burroughs, 1959
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929The fox knows lots of tricks, the hedgehog only one—but it’s a winner.
—Archilochus, c. 650 BCResearch is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1887To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
—Walter Pater, 1873Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.
—George Eliot, 1860The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
—John Locke, 1695Exile lacks the grandeur, the majesty, of expatriation.
—Bharati Mukherjee, 1999In life our absent friend is far away: / But death may bring our friend exceeding near.
—Christina Rossetti, 1881Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCIn dealing with the dead, if we treat them as if they were entirely dead, that would show a want of affection and should not be done; or, if we treat them as if they were entirely alive, that would show a want of wisdom and should not be done.
—Confucius, c. 500 BCOne race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
—Pindar, c. 450 BC