"Never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention."
--Peter Beagle, The Last Unicorn

"Many men stumble across the truth, but most manage to pick themselves up and continue as if nothing had happened."
--Winston Churchill

"It's amazing how much more interesting people become when they think you're really stupid."
--the janitor in Disturbing Behavior

"What power would Hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven?"
--Dream to Lucifer, in Neil Gaiman's Sandman

"All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart."
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"Love one another but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."
--Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

"Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it."
--Richard Feynman

"While the pen is mightier than the sword, not everyone can read."
--Tara Jennings

"A person is smart. People are stupid, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it."
--K, in Men In Black

"You know, I was a lot happier when our national crisis involved blowjobs."
--Nat Lanza

"The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be."
--Lao Tze

"...and they shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men."
-- Liber AL vel Legis

"The church says the Earth is Flat. But I know that is it round, for I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church."
--Ferdinand Magellan

"This is the wisdom of the cave men, that we have lost.
It was their sanity - the lack of it is our madness.
We no longer know how to act, and having lost the symbol,
we have lost the reality.
Not by logic, not by intellect, nor by reason can
we regain it - but by wild dances, solemn rites and
chants in unknown tongues - only in the irrational
and unknown direction can we come to it again."
--Jack Parsons

"Would you like to see Britannia rule again, my friend?
All you have to do is follow the worms..."
--Pink Floyd

"All the logic in the world won't save you from your dreams."
--Laurel Riek

"Logic only gives a man what he needs. Magic gives a man what he wants."
--Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction

"If we burn our wings
Flying too close to the sun
If the moment of glory
Is over before it's begun
If the dream is won -
Though everything else is lost
We will pay the price
But we will not count the cost"
--Rush

"Many people would rather die than think. In fact, most do."
--Bertrand Russell

"And in all things, to thine own self be true."
--William Shakespeare

"It does not do to leave a dragon out of your calculations if you live near him."
--J.R.R. Tolkein, The Hobbit

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear. Not absence of fear."
--Mark Twain

"I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
--Francis Voltaire

"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made."
--Oscar Wilde

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes..."
--Unknown

"To silence a fool is an injustice to the fool and the society that silences him. A fool will hang himself a thousand times with his own words, but society will hang a thousand innocent men by taking away their voices."
--Unknown

"Those who dance are thought mad by those who hear not the music."
--Unknown

"Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on lunch."
--Unknown