The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
—Wendell Berry, 1983
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Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate!
—Willa Cather, 1915Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
—Jane Austen, 1818Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed.
—William Penn, 1693As he brews, so shall he drink.
—Ben Jonson, 1598Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.
—Erich Fromm, 1947One of the animals which a generous and sociable man would soonest become is a dog. A dog can have a friend; he has affections and character; he can enjoy equally the field and the fireside; he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates; he offends and is pardoned; he stands by you in adversity; he is a good fellow.
—Leigh Hunt, 1834Man’s great mission is not to conquer nature by main force but to cooperate with her intelligently but lovingly for his own purposes.
—Lewis Mumford, 1962Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
—E.M. Forster, 1951Civilization, as we know it, is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
—Arnold Toynbee, 1948A dead enemy always smells good.
—Aulus Vitellius, 69I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830