To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819
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Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887No one wins a quarrel by quarreling.
—German proverbIntolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925The world is wearied of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1870Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.
—Tennessee Williams, 1944In the Middle Ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
—Robert Runcie, 1988Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules, and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence; in other words it is war minus the shooting.
—George Orwell, 1945For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCThe slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
—Henry Fielding, 1730We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
—Barbara Ward, 1972Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land.
—Aldo Leopold, 1933Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.
—Robert P. Hudson, 1983