What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807
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God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin LutherHygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.
—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay in solid cash—the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
—Aldous Huxley, 1926Some things are privileged from jest—namely, religion, matters of state, great persons, all men’s present business of importance, and any case that deserves pity.
—Francis Bacon, 1597Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.
—Malcolm X, 1964Education—a debt due from present to future generations.
—George Peabody, 1852The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
—Gaston Bachelard, 1960The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175Do we want laurels for ourselves most, / Or most that no one else shall have any?
—Amy Lowell, 1922Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
—Willa Cather, 1918Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo.
—Matsuo Basho, c. 1685