I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830
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In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951The more corrupt the state, the more numerous its laws.
—Tacitus, c. 110Men, my dear, are very queer animals—a mixture of horse nervousness, ass stubbornness, and camel malice.
—T. H. Huxley, 1895All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture, to us, and a mirror.
—Alain de Lille, c. 1200One must love people a good deal whom one takes pains to convince or instruct.
—Mary de la Riviere Manley, 1720Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It’s the glory of the sea that has turned my head.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort in a hospital.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1857I am a friend of the workingman, and I would rather be his friend than be one.
—Clarence Darrow, 1932New things are always ugly.
—Willa Cather, 1921Whenever in history equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.
—Mary McCarthy, 1971Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957