I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
—Galileo Galilei, 1615
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There is a demon who puts wings on certain tales and launches them like eagles out into space.
—Alexandre Dumas, 1846Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
—Iris Murdoch, 1974Health can make money, but money cannot make health.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1833Freedom of the press is only guaranteed to those who own one.
—A.J. Liebling, 1960The world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.
—Francis Bacon, 1625Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.
—Anthony Burgess, 1964If law and justice do not attain their ends, the people will be unable to move hand or foot.
—Confucius, c. 500The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886I’ve dreamed enough to have a drink.
—François Rabelais, 1546I had rather be in a state of misery and envied for my supposed happiness than in a state of happiness and pitied for my supposed misery.
—Elizabeth Inchbald, 1793History is a people’s memory, and without a memory man is demoted to the level of the lower animals.
—Malcolm X, 1964