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It would be madness, and inconsistency, to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means.
—Francis Bacon, 1620Human happiness never remains long in the same place.
—Herodotus, c. 430 BCIn order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.
—John Ruskin, 1850To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943Happiness (as the mathematicians might say) lies on a curve, and we approach it only by asymptote.
—Christopher Morley, 1919The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.
—Hannah Arendt, 1972Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
—W.H. Auden, 1957It is a luxury to be understood.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1831Childhood has no forebodings—but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
—George Eliot, 1860One great reason why many children abandon themselves wholly to silly sports and trifle away all their time insipidly is because they have found their curiosity baulked and their inquiries neglected.
—John Locke, 1693In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1830Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
—Socrates, c. 430 BC