He who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.
—E. R. Dodds, 1951
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Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
—Jean Rostand, 1939A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques LacanAll the married heiresses I have known have shipwrecked.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
—August Strindberg, 1886Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.
—William James, 1902Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1830Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920Good fortune is light as a feather, but nobody knows how to hold it up. Misfortune is heavy as the earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of its way.
—Zhuangzi, c. 300 BCFor what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
—John Lennon, 1970