As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
—Charles Darwin, 1859
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Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.
—Immanuel Kant, 1781The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
—William Blake, 1793Nature never jests.
—Albrecht von Haller, 1751This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.
—Tony Blair, 2006Ah! Freedom is a noble thing!
—John Barbour, 1375All art is a revolt against man’s fate.
—André Malraux, 1951Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals—except the weasel.
—The Simpsons, 1993There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCThere’s hope a great man’s memory may outlive his life half a year.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600I came upon no wine, / So wonderful as thirst.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1923The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
—George Santayana, 1905