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Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him. For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.: Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus (1493 - 1541)
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996), "Contact"
Senescent judges show how patriotic they are by passing out hard sentences for tearing up a draft card or following one's conscience according to the principles established by our country at the Nuremburg trials.: Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986), The Crazy Ape
When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.: Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986), The Crazy Ape
The unexamined life is not worth living.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), in Plato, Dialogues, Apology
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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Apology
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), in Plato, Dialogues, Apology
An exile's life is no life.: Leonidas of Tarentum (290 BC - 220 BC), from The Greek Anthology, 1973, Peter Jay
Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961), "On the Psychology of the Unconciousness", 1917
Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.: Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)

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