“Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

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“Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“The enemy had been much demoralized by his defeats at Champion's Hill and the Big Black, and I believed he would not make much effort to hold Vicksburg.”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

“Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Heretics

“If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it.”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“there is no darknessbut ignorance;”

― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Theology sits rouged at the window and courts its favor, offering to sell her charms to philosophy.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“And to me also, who appreciate life, the butterflies, and soap-bubbles, and whatever is like them amongst us, seem most to enjoy happiness.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“I want to give a really bad party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there's a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

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