Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
—John Morley, 1872
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Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
—Sigmund Freud, 1912The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them.
—Denis Diderot, 1777I never yet could make out why men are so fond of hunting; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields—and all for a hare or a fox or a stag that they could get more easily some other way.
—Anna Sewell, 1877Man is a troublesome animal and therefore is not very manageable.
—Plato, c. 349 BCAmong famous traitors of history, one might mention the weather.
—Ilka Chase, 1969I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1679All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849The drunken man is a living corpse.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 390As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II, 1986A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
—George Herbert, 1640