We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

Uma virtude deve ser nossa invenção, nossa defesa e nossa necessidade pessoais: tomada em qualquer outro sentido, não passa de um perigo. Aquilo que não é uma condição vital é prejudicial ? vida: uma virtude que não existe senão por causa dum sentimento de respeito pela ideia de «virtude», como Kant a queria, é perigosa. A «virtude», o «dever», o «bem em si», o bem como carácter da impersonalidade do valor geral - quimeras onde se exprime a degenerescência, o último enfraquecimento da vida, a chinesice de Conisberga.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it.

Elder Cloward

The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.

Clifford Stoll

I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.

Albert Einstein

Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?

Friedrich Nietzsche

The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

Jacob Bronowski

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.

Groucho Marx

Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.

Michel de Montaigne

Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature -- opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

Abraham Lincoln

The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles.

John Adams

Hugh Grant is the main man. He's the number one romantic comedy man in the world.

Sam Elliott

I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.

Jasper Fforde