To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819
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In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951I’ve dreamed enough to have a drink.
—François Rabelais, 1546History in its broadest aspect is a record of man’s migrations from one environment to another.
—Ellsworth Huntington, 1919One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat eight hours a day, nor drink for eight hours a day, nor make love for eight hours.
—William Faulkner, 1958Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations—wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
—Edmund Burke, 1795Everyone knows about everybody in Hollywood—who sleeps with whom, who doesn’t sleep, who does it standing on his head or in the dentist’s chair.
—Rock Hudson, 1982To make laws that man cannot and will not obey serves to bring all law into contempt.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1860God walks among the pots and pans.
—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582The fox knows lots of tricks, the hedgehog only one—but it’s a winner.
—Archilochus, c. 650 BCThere are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.
—Mark Twain, 1897It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
—Friedrich Schiller, 1781To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1954