I 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, 1984
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Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
—Mencius, 300 BCThe human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
—Oscar Wilde, 1893The more men are massed together, the more corrupt they become. Disease and vice are the sure results of overcrowded cities.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762The great difficulty lies in trying to transpose last night’s moment to a day which has no knowledge of it.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
—Maxim Gorky, 1913Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
—B.F. Skinner, 1964The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Bright youth passes as quickly as thought.
—Theognis, c. 550 BCLo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCMan is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905