Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
—Aleister Crowley, 1904
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Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1910It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mold, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1790Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
—William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
—Francis Bacon, 1615The best way to fill time is to waste it.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987A monument is money wasted. My memory will live on if my life has deserved it.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 109If both what is before and what is after are in this same “now,” things which happened ten thousand years ago would be simultaneous with what has happened today, and nothing would be before or after anything else.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCHow many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort in a hospital.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1857There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves very little trace in history.
—Fernand Braudel, 1979Technology is so much fun, but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
—Daniel Boorstin, 1978Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1852