“To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of a scholar.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

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“Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.”

― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

“the Controllers realized that force was no good. The slower but infinitely surer methods of ectogenesis, neo-Pavlovian conditioning and hypnopædia…”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”

― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements . . . profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

“I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'the Unnecessary War'.”

― Winston Churchill, The Second World War

“He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, brain is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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