Any caterpillar who tried to “know himself” would never become a butterfly.
-Andre Gide
Food to a large extent is what holds a society together and eating is closely linked to deep spiritual experiences.
By degrees, little by little, from time to time, a wise person should remove his own impurities as a smith removes the dross from silver.
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself.
-Richard Francis Burton
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
-Albert Einstein
One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.
-Robert Brault