"The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man."
— Alexis de Tocqueville

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"On Truth and Lie

What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"When your laboratory explodes, lacing your body with a supercharged elixir, what do you do? You don't just lie there. You crawl out of the rubble, hideously scarred, and swear vengeance on the world. You keep going. You keep trying to take over the world."
— Austin Grossman

"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."
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— Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)

"Power is a great aphrodisiac."
— Henry Kissinger

"Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race"
— Matt Ridley (The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature)

"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."
— Groucho Marx

"Man is certainly stark mad: he cannot make a worm, yet he will make gods by the dozen."
— Michel de Montaigne

"All great truths begin as blasphemies."
— George Bernard Shaw

"The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."
— Bertrand Russell

"He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors."
— Thomas Jefferson

"In order to learn, one must change one's mind."
— Orson Scott Card

"“It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.”"
— Voltaire

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster."
— Isaac Asimov

"The ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr."
— Muhammad Ibn Abdullah

"If we believe absurdities we shall commit atrocities."
— Voltaire

"Pain is certain, suffering is optional."
— Buddha

"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."
— Leonardo da Vinci

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

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— Sun Tzu

"Every anarchist is a baffled dictator."
— Benito Mussolini

"Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin."
— Robert G. Ingersoll

"Living is change; Growth is optional."
— Juan Wa Chang

"Never was anything great achieved without danger."
— Niccolo Machiavelli

"While the word is yet unspoken, you are master of it; when once it is spoken, it is master of you."
— Arab proverb

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong."
— Voltaire

"People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous."
— Confucius

"News is what someone wants to suppress. Everything else is advertising."
— EX-NBC news president Rubin Frank

"All warfare is based on deception."
— Sun Tzu

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

"True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Tesler's Law of Conservation of Complexity: You cannot reduce the complexity of a given task beyond a certain point. Once you've reached that point, you can only shift the burden around."
— Larry Tesler

"Then I glanced at the ring on my finger.

The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever. I know where I came from—but where did all you zombies come from?

I felt a headache coming on, but a headache powder is one thing I do not take. I did once—and you all went away.

So I crawled into bed and whistled out the light.

You aren’t really there at all. There isn’t anybody but me—Jane—here alone in the dark.

I miss you dreadfully!"
— Robert A. Heinlein

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
— Mark Twain

"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
— Hector Berlioz

"You destroy your enemy when you make him your friend."
— Abraham Lincoln

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"""Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar. ""
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (The Twilight of the Idols/The Anti-Christ: or How to Philosophize with a Hammer)

"The function of music is to release us from tyranny of conscious thought."
— Thomas Beecham

"All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other."
— HP Lovecraft

"I was unavoidably detained by my lack of punctuality."
— Ethan Greer