God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
—John Lennon, 1970
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Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.
—Hebrews, c. 60Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.
—Zhuangzi, c. 286 BCLove lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
—André Breton, 1937To outwit an enemy is not only just and glorious but profitable and sweet.
—Plutarch, c. 100We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1928All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.
—Max Born, 1968Whenever in history equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.
—Mary McCarthy, 1971I have given up considering happiness as relevant.
—Edward Gorey, 1974Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1915Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962