All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BC
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The most hateful torment for men is to have knowledge of everything but power over nothing.
—Herodotus, c. 425 BCThe United States has virtually set up an empire on impounded and redistributed water.
—Charles P. Berkey, 1946Our whole life is but one great school; from the cradle to the grave we are all learners; nor will our education be finished until we die.
—Ann Plato, 1841The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
—Plato, c. 375 BCTalk to me about the truth of religion and I’ll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I’ll listen submissively. But don’t come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don’t understand.
—C.S. Lewis, 1961It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street.
—Mary Lease, c. 1890God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
—John Lennon, 1970The twilight is the crack between the worlds.
—Carlos Castaneda, 1968It’s only the futility of the first flood that prevents God from sending a second.
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, c. 1794A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
—Pliny the Elder, c. 77No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
—Bertrand Russell, 1961The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962