The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886
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Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1960At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.
—The Upanishads, c. 800 BCWe must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850I came upon no wine, / So wonderful as thirst.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1923To make laws that man cannot and will not obey serves to bring all law into contempt.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1860Great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions, as it were, by the way, in the course of their everyday life.
—Elizabeth Charles, 1862No poems can please long, nor live, that are written by water drinkers.
—Horace, 35 BCI believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be a Catholic) how to act and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote.
—John F. Kennedy, 1960So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, c. 1950Night affords the most convenient shade for works of darkness.
—John Taylor, 1750Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
—James Baldwin, 1961