Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.
—Arthur Wellesley, c. 1830
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I shall be an autocrat: that’s my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that’s his.
—Catherine the Great, c. 1796I have yet, I believe, some years in store, for I have a good state of health and a happy mind, and I take care of both by nourishing the first with temperance and the latter with abundance. This, I believe, you will allow to be the true philosophy of life.
—Thomas Paine, 1803Appearances often are deceiving.
—Aesop, c. 550 BCMy interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
—Charles F. Kettering, 1946Not 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, 1884Are we not ourselves nature, nature without end?
—Stanisław Lem, 1961Too often, where we need water we find guns.
—Ban Ki-moon, 2008The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1776Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.
—Hebrews, c. 60The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
—Laurence Sterne, 1760I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
—Roald Dahl, 1984Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1640