Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BC
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Like a broken gong be still, be silent. Know the stillness of freedom where there is no more striving.
—Siddhartha Gautama, c. 500 BCOne doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
—André Gide, 1926I never practice, I always play.
—Wanda Landowska, 1953Death keeps no calendar.
—George Herbert, 1640Art imitates nature as well as it can, as a pupil follows his master; thus it is a sort of grandchild of God.
—Dante, c. 1315Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.
—Vladimir Lenin, 1918All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCDemocracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976Quarreling must lead to disorder, and disorder exhaustion.
—Xunzi, c. 250 BCIt may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962