Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913
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A change in the weather is sufficient to create the world and oneself anew.
—Marcel Proust, c. 1920The only justification of rebellion is success.
—Thomas B. Reed, 1878The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886Written laws are like spiderwebs: they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.
—Anacharsis, c. 550 BCIt was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
—Cory Doctorow, 2013To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
—John Buchan, 1940The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
—William Blake, 1793He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCDon’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.
—Winston Churchill, 1939The twilight is the crack between the worlds.
—Carlos Castaneda, 1968The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.
—Mario Puzo, 2001Sick, irritated, and the prey to a thousand discomforts, I go on with my labor like a true workingman, who, with sleeves rolled up, in the sweat of his brow, beats away at his anvil, not caring whether it rains or blows, hails or thunders.
—Gustave Flaubert, 1845