The nature of God is a circle, of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
—Empedocles, c. 450 BC
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Do you suppose that will change the sense of the morals, the fact that we can’t use morals as a means of judging the city because we couldn’t stand it? And that we’re changing our whole moral system to suit the fact that we’re living in a ridiculous way?
—Philip Johnson, 1965No poems can please long, nor live, that are written by water drinkers.
—Horace, 35 BCFrom hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.
—Herman Melville, 1851The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
—Carl Sandburg, 1934When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverbRewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.
—Zhuangzi, c. 286 BCGod is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.
—Pablo Picasso, 1964Nature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
—Jean Rostand, 1939The true art of memory is the art of attention.
—Samuel Johnson, 1759One man’s loss is another man’s profit.
—Michel de Montaigne, c. 1580The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1905