“Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

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“I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow...”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Well, thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry IV

“It's like everything in the world for me is inside a tub full of guts, so that you wonder how there can be any room in it for anything else very important.”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“And, in fine, of false sciences I thought I knew the worth sufficiently to escape being deceived by the professions of an alchemist, the predictions of an astrologer, the impostures of a magician, or by the artifices and boasting of any of those...”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

“A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

“Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“Revolutionists should always be hurried; progress has no time to lose.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“But an infinity of passions may be contained in a minute, like a crowd in a small space.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and the more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason

“People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don’t dream at all.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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