To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891
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Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.
—The Upanishads, c. 800 BCIdolatry is the mother of all games.
—Novatian, c. 255The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
—Voltaire, 1723All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the state.
—Albert Camus, 1951There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Animals are good to think with.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you’re told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.
—Simon Hoggart, 1990Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.
—Arthur Griffiths, 1899I was born without knowing why, I have lived without knowing why, and I am dying without either knowing why or how.
—Pierre Gassendi, 1655All of the great musicians have borrowed from the songs of the common people.
—Antonín Dvořák, 1893Language is the house of being. In its home human beings dwell. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.
—Martin Heidegger, 1949