Fire destroys that which feeds it.
—Simone Weil, c. 1940
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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.
—Pablo Picasso, 1929The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.
—Aristotle, c. 322 BCNature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them.
—Charles Lamb, 1810The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin, 1871Men, my dear, are very queer animals—a mixture of horse nervousness, ass stubbornness, and camel malice.
—T. H. Huxley, 1895Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.
—George Eliot, 1860The sea hath no king but God alone.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1881Despotism achieves great things illegally; democracy doesn’t even take the trouble to achieve small things legally.
—Honoré de Balzac, 1831There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1790Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
—Vegetius, c. 385The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we’d get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.
—Hunter S. Thompson, 1971