Just to fill the hour—that is happiness.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844
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The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.
—Che Guevara, 1968The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
—John Donne, c. 1629What timid man does not avoid contact with the sick, fearing lest he contract a disease so near?
—Ovid, c. 10Whatsoever is, is in God.
—Benedict de Spinoza, 1677All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
—Toni Morrison, 1987Doctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
—William Saroyan, 1943Mammon, n. The god of the world’s leading religion. His chief temple is in the holy city of New York.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911Business is other people’s money.
—Delphine de Girardin, 1852I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
—Galileo Galilei, 1615Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.
—Jules Renard, 1898Imagine a number of men in chains, all under sentence of death, some of whom are each day butchered in the sight of the others; those remaining see their own condition in that of their fellows and, looking at each other with grief and despair, await their turn. This is an image of the human condition.
—Blaise Pascal, 1669