The sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya, 1799
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Happiness is a warm puppy.
—Charles Schulz, 1971Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
—Oscar Wilde, 1893Man’s great mission is not to conquer nature by main force but to cooperate with her intelligently but lovingly for his own purposes.
—Lewis Mumford, 1962We must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.
—John Winthrop, 1630In every ill turn of fortune, the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy.
—Boethius, c. 520There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
—Anthony Trollope, 1862Nature is immovable.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCThere was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
—Virginia Woolf, 1927Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain there would be no life.
—John Updike, 1989Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
—Cicero, c. 45 BCWhere shall I, of wandering weary, find my resting place at last?
—Heinrich Heine, 1827Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.
—Doris Lessing, 1994