The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.
—Albert Einstein, 1930
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The sea hath fish for every man.
—William Camden, 1605Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
—Iris Murdoch, 1974Dread attends the unknown.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1998The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
—André Breton, 1937The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.
—Edward O. Wilson, 2009I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
—Lorraine Hansberry, 1965With the dead there is no rivalry.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1839Commerce tends to wear off those prejudices which maintain distinction and animosity between nations.
—William Robertson, 1769One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706It is a luxury to be understood.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1831Guard more faithfully the secret which is confided to you than the money which is entrusted to your care.
—Isocrates, c. 370 BCOnce any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972