Are we not ourselves nature, nature without end?
—Stanisław Lem, 1961
Archive
Quotes
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949When poets don’t know what to say and have completely given up on the play, just like a finger, they lift the machine and the spectators are satisfied.
—Antiphanes, c. 350 BCFriendship itself will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
—Robert Wilson Lynd, 1924Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.
—Mark Twain, 1873The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951Put national causes first and personal grudges last.
—Sima Qian, c. 91 BCKnowledge itself is power.
—Francis Bacon, 1597Do you suppose it possible to know democracy without knowing the people?
—Xenophon, c. 370 BCGrow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
—Hazel Rochman, 1995O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599The boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.
—Plato, c. 348 BC