Language is the house of being. In its home human beings dwell. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.
—Martin Heidegger, 1949
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Revolutions are always verbose.
—Leon Trotsky, 1933The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
—George Santayana, 1905It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963When the root lives on, the new leaves come back.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCIt is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard for their own interest.
—Adam Smith, 1776The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
—Donald Barthelme, 1964The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you.
—John Updike, 1963Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
—André Gide, 1897I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BCEvery memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.
—Anthony Doerr, 2006The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.
—George Moore, 1888Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land.
—Aldo Leopold, 1933