There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future: the Establishment and the Movement. At times the resistance is reanimated, the schism runs under the world and appears in Literature, Philosophy, Church, State and social customs.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The only reason why God created man is because
he was disappointed with the monkey.
~ Mark Twain
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Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit.
~ Caspar David Friedrich
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The artist should not only paint what he sees before him, but also what he sees in himself. If, however, he sees nothing within him, then he should also refrain from painting what he sees before him.
~ Caspar David Friedrich
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Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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A defining characteristic of American universities is how much administrative busy work faculty are subjected to relative to what one typically experiences at European universities.
~ Louis A. Feuerbach
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The values of a society totally preoccupied with making money are not altogether reassuring.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
~ Iris Murdoch
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