Nature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635
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The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.
—George Moore, 1888One man’s loss is another man’s profit.
—Michel de Montaigne, c. 1580Cities are the abyss of the human species.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!
—Philip Roth, 1969A true German can’t stand the French, / Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
—August Strindberg, 1886All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.
—Max Born, 1968I am not Athenian or Greek but a citizen of the world.
—Socrates, c. 420 BCIf you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don’t teach him to subtract—teach him to deduct.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BC