“my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.”

― James Joyce, Dubliners

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“But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

“There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being?”

― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot

“My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when...”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“LITIGATION, n. A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse...”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

“Men's fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

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