My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
—Timothy Leary, 1966
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Time robs us of all, even of memory.
—Virgil, c. 40 BCThat sweet bondage which is freedom’s self.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1813It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
—Thucydides, 410 BCTo know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
—George Eliot, 1872Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.
—Zhuangzi, c. 286 BCWe and the dead ride quick at night.
—Gottfried August Bürger, 1773I shall be an autocrat: that’s my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that’s his.
—Catherine the Great, c. 1796Spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of birdsong.
—Rachel Carson, 1962The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.
—John Donne, 1622He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages.
—Roger L’Estrange, 1692I always think of nature as a great spectacle, somewhat resembling the opera.
—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686