Man is a tool-using animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1836
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Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
—Robertson Davies, 1985I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
—Samuel Johnson, 1773We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
—Aesop, c. 600 BCI learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929It’s the end of the world every day, for someone.
—Margaret Atwood, 2000Words pay no debts.
—William Shakespeare, 1601The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983Tomorrow we take to the mighty sea.
—Horace, 23 BCMan is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.
—Erich Fromm, 1947He who is afraid of his own memories is cowardly, really cowardly.
—Elias Canetti, 1954There was a great deal of drinking among us but little drunkenness. We all seemed to feel that Prohibition was a personal affront and that we had a moral duty to undermine it.
—Elizabeth Anderson, 1969