Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving, how express and admirable in action, how like an angel in apprehension, how like a god.

Heaven means to be one with God.

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

You can write me down in history with hateful twisted lies, you can tread me in this very dirt, but still like dust I'll rise.

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years, it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

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