How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do.
—William James, 1902
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Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.
—George Eliot, 1860As 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, 1859The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
—Germaine Greer, 1970The twilight is the crack between the worlds.
—Carlos Castaneda, 1968You are dust, and to dust you shall return.
—Book of Genesis, c. 800 BCIt is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1891No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
—Bertrand Russell, 1961Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.
—George Herbert, 1651Our whole life is but one great school; from the cradle to the grave we are all learners; nor will our education be finished until we die.
—Ann Plato, 1841I do desire we may be better strangers.
—William Shakespeare, 1600The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1962Seek not water, only show you are thirsty, / That water may spring up all around you.
—Rumi, c. 1260