“The taste for quotations, and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations, is a Surrealist taste.” ~ Susan Sontag
“It is far from easy to determine whether Nature has proved to man a kind parent or a merciless stepmother.” ~ Pliny The Elder
“Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.” ~ Marcel Duchamp
“Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.” ~ Karl Popper
“Love makes us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.” ~ George Santayana
“War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.” ~ Thomas Hardy
“Without contraries there is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to human existence.” ~ William Blake
“The determined pursuit of purity and perfection is the ugliest of all virtues.” ~ Apollonius of Helicon
“My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?” ~ Charles Schulz
“There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.” ~ Michel de Montaigne
“Life is the sum of all your choices.” ~ Albert Camus
“Keep an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.” ~ Bertrand Russell
“The state is a creation of nature and man is by nature a political animal.” ~ Aristotle
“The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.” ~ Mark Twain
“Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.” ~ Benford’s law of controversy
“The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.” ~ Friedrich Hegel
“The self is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; it is a dramatic effect arising diffusely from a scene that is presented.” ~ Erving Goffman