You can’t find the soul with a scalpel.
—Gustave Flaubert, c. 1880
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This is Year Zero.
—Pol Pot, 1975’Tis the destroyer, or the devil, that scatters plagues about the world.
—Cotton Mather, 1693If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.
—Charles M. Allen, 1967Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.
—William Shakespeare, 1592A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
—James Joyce, 1922I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!
—George H. W. Bush, 1990Quarreling must lead to disorder, and disorder exhaustion.
—Xunzi, c. 250 BCChildren are all foreigners. We treat them as such.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839As man disappears from sight, the land remains.
—Maori proverbAfter each night we are emptier: our mysteries and our griefs have leaked away into our dreams.
—E.M. Cioran, 1949The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
—Jean Genet, 1983How sad a sight is human happiness to those whose thoughts can pierce beyond an hour!
—Edward Young, 1741