Without music life would be a mistake.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889
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No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762Seek not water, only show you are thirsty, / That water may spring up all around you.
—Rumi, c. 1260We are as near to heaven by sea as by land!
—Humphrey Gilbert, 1583Lord, I do not ask that thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1898Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1921Seafarers go to sleep in the evening not knowing whether they will find themselves at the bottom of the sea the next morning.
—Jean de Joinville, c. 1305The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
—Albert Einstein, 1936It seems to me that we all look at nature too much and live with her too little.
—Oscar Wilde, 1897Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.
—Henry George, 1879There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCBy and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955People react to fear, not love—they don’t teach that in Sunday school, but it’s true.
—Richard Nixon, 1975