How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.
—Charles Lamb, 1833
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It is not my design to drink or sleep; my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.
—Oliver Cromwell, 1658Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.
—Thomas JeffersonIt is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1891To live outside the law you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan, 1966Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1915Traveling is like gambling: it is ever connected with winning and losing, and generally where least expected we receive more or less than we hoped for.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1797For most of us, nighttime dreaming brings us closer to our identities and our power than any activity in the waking world.
—Walter Mosley, 2000We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
—John Locke, 1690Nature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635Like a broken gong be still, be silent. Know the stillness of freedom where there is no more striving.
—Siddhartha Gautama, c. 500 BC’Tis the sport to have the engineer / Hoist with his own petard.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903