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Voltaire
“Even in those cities which seem to enjoy peace, and where the arts flourish, the inhabitants are devoured by more envy, care, and uneasiness than are experienced by a besieged town.” Voltaire, “Candide” - 1759
John Maynard Keynes
“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.” John Maynard Keynes, “The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money” - 1936
Sigmund Freud
“Dreams are never concerned with trivialities; we do not allow our sleep to be disturbed by trifles.” Sigmund Freud, “The Interpretation of Dreams” - 1899
John Milton
“So farewell, hope; and with hope farewell, fear; farewell, remorse!” John Milton, “Paradise Lost” - 1667
Albert Camus
“I know now that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of a great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.” Albert Camus, “The Plague” - 1947
James Joyce
“real adventures . . . do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.” James Joyce, “Dubliners” - 1914
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.” Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” - 16 April 1963
John Steinbeck
“People like you to be something, preferably what they are.” John Steinbeck, “East of Eden” - 1952
Honoré de Balzac
“Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.” Honoré de Balzac, “Father Goriot” - 1835
J. K. Rowling
“we are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” - 2000
Anne Frank
“Even though I'm only fourteen, I know what I want, I know who's right and who's wrong, I have my own opinions, ideas and principles, and though it may sound odd coming from a teenager, I feel I'm more of a person than a child—I feel I'm complete...” Anne Frank, “The Diary of a Young Girl” - 1947
Henry David Thoreau
“beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.” Henry David Thoreau, “Walden” - 1854
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “The Social Contract” - 1762
Stephen Hawking
“The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe.” Stephen Hawking, “A Brief History of Time” - 1988
Adam Smith
“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.” Adam Smith, “The Wealth of Nations” - 1776
Stephen King
“The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.” Stephen King, “The Stand” - 1978
Charlie Chaplin
“In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose, is an attitude of defiance: we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature – or go insane.” Charlie Chaplin, “My Autobiography” - 1964
Sophocles
“To err is common To all men, but the man who having erred Hugs not his errors, but repents and seeks The cure, is not a wastrel nor unwise.” Sophocles, “Antigone” - c. 441 BC
Thomas Henry Huxley
“The question of the position of man, as an animal, has given rise to much disputation, with the result of proving that there is no anatomical or developmental character by which he is more widely distinguished from the group of animals most nearly...” Thomas Henry Huxley, “The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century” - 1887
René Descartes
“The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellences, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, ...” René Descartes, “Discourse on the Method” - 1637