“once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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“At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude of her life, seeking afar off some white sail in the mists of the horizon.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“For the principle of equality begets two tendencies; the one leads men straight to independence, and may suddenly drive them into anarchy; the other conducts them by a longer, more secret, but more certain road, to servitude.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“I love you, with a love so great that it simply couldn't keep growing inside my heart, but had to leap out and reveal itself in all its magnitude.”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

“I am sorry I can say nothing more consoling to you, for love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“For it is not what happens to me that makes me great, but it is what I do, and there is surely no one who thinks that a man became great because he won the great prize in the lottery.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

“if the body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and the outline for our projects.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“All nationalistic distinctions — all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect — are entirely spurious, but they are important so long as people believe in them.”

― George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

“As in other departments of science, so in politics, the compound should always be resolved into the simple elements or least parts of the whole.”

― Aristotle, Politics

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