Art imitates nature as well as it can, as a pupil follows his master; thus it is a sort of grandchild of God.
—Dante, c. 1315
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Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797Traveling is like gambling: it is ever connected with winning and losing, and generally where least expected we receive more or less than we hoped for.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1797The right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing else than the right to disillusionment phrased in another way.
—Aldous Huxley, 1956The deed is everything, the glory naught.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832The smell of rain is rich with life.
—Estela Portillo Trambley, 1975No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it—have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.
—James Russell Lowell, 1884I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be a Catholic) how to act and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote.
—John F. Kennedy, 1960The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
—André Gide, 1927I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.
—Albert Camus, 1957To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.
—Mikhail Bakunin, 1871Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
—Eleanor Roosevelt, 1942