I imagine that one of the first forms of behavior, like one of the first signals, may be reduced to this: “Keep me warm.”
—Michel Serres, 1982
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What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevist forever.
—Vladimir Lenin, 1923Trade is a social act.
—John Stuart Mill, 1859Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
—E.M. Forster, 1951Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1821The true art of memory is the art of attention.
—Samuel Johnson, 1759As to the sea itself, love it you cannot. Why should you? I will never believe again the sea was ever loved by anyone whose life was married to it. It is the creation of omnipotence, which is not of humankind and understandable, and so the springs of its behavior are hidden.
—H.M. Tomlinson, 1912Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
—Kin HubbardNature never jests.
—Albrecht von Haller, 1751A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
—Jane Austen, 1814What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
—Joseph Addison, 1711Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.
—Miriam Makeba, 1988