Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
—B.F. Skinner, 1964
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There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.
—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BCMore pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880Big head, little wit.
—French proverbThe slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
—Henry Fielding, 1730This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
—Abraham Lincoln, 1861Industrialism is the religion with “the machine” as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.
—Dora Russell, 1983Is this dying? Is this all? Is this all that I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear it!
—Cotton Mather, 1728An irreligious man is not one who denies the gods of the majority, but one who applies to the gods the opinions of the majority. For what most men say about the gods are not ideas derived from sensation, but false opinions, according to which the greatest evils come to the wicked, and the greatest blessings come to the good from the gods.
—Epicurus, c. 250 BCThe more laws, the more lawbreakers.
—Tao Te Ching, c. 500 BCSeven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
—Jane Austen, 1811Revolutions are always verbose.
—Leon Trotsky, 1933