“I wanted to know, not for the love of knowledge but as a defence against the world's contempt for the ignorant.”

― Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

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“I say, then, that belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“real adventures . . . do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.”

― James Joyce, Dubliners

“There is thus an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

“One curious feature about political reform is that so many people feel it is disloyal to attempt to rectify the abuses in one’s own party. And yet it is obvious that political morality is dependent upon the awakened conscience and private...”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

“Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological state plans for it. Everyone knows it is madness, and every nation has an excuse.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

“This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.”

― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many men of evil temper and bad character. Neither quality shall by itself avail.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

“It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky. Between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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