Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851
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What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972The world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.
—Voltaire, 1770The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
—Italo Calvino, 1967Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
—Shimon Peres, 1995Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.
—Voltaire, 1764Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, now that, and changes names as it changes in direction.
—Dante Alighieri, c. 1315I am dying with the help of too many physicians.
—Alexander the Great, c. 323 BCNo great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.
—Emma Goldman, 1917What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.
—Juvenal, c. 125He that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732