The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844
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An unjust law is no law at all.
—Saint Augustine, 395What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1850The law looks at no one’s face.
—Gabriel Okara, 1964We are to go to law never to revenge, but only to repair.
—Samuel Pepys, 1661I don’t believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there’s one thing that’s dangerous for an artist, it’s precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.
—Federico Fellini, c. 1950An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.
—Plato, c. 360 BCOcean. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man—who has no gills.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.
—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 1969Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
—Oscar Wilde, 1893I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
—Susan Sontag, 1977What experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1830Of all the creatures that breathe and creep on the surface of the earth, none is more to be pitied than man.
—Homer, c. 750 BC