He who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.
—E. R. Dodds, 1951
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I will never again command an army in America if we must carry along paid spies. I will banish myself to some foreign country first.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863A man is not idle, because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
—Victor Hugo, 1862Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.
—Dai Vernon, 1994Jests and scoffs do lessen majesty and greatness and should be far from great personages and men of wisdom.
—Henry Peacham, 1622Dance tunes are always right.
—Dylan Thomas, 1936Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
—Jane Austen, 1818God sells us all things at the price of labor.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.
—Arthur Wellesley, c. 1830Whatsoever is, is in God.
—Benedict de Spinoza, 1677Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques LacanThe doctor occupies a seat in the front row of the stalls of the human drama, and is constantly watching and even intervening in the tragedies, comedies, and tragicomedies which form the raw material of the literary art.
—W. Russell Brain, 1952