Ah! Freedom is a noble thing!
—John Barbour, 1375
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It is far, far better and much safer to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
—Shimon Peres, 1995My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
—Timothy Leary, 1966Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.
—Robert Benchley, 1935A miracle entails a degree of irrationality—not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.
—Emmanuel Lévinas, 1952If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide—because he kills not merely a man but a near relative—without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself.
—Saint Augustine, c. 420At the start there’s always energy.
—Suzan-Lori Parks, 2006Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with the necessities.
—John Lothrop Motley, 1858Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCIt is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard for their own interest.
—Adam Smith, 1776A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
—John Lennon, 1970