| Author |
Quotes |
| Aeschylus | I know how men in exile feed on dreams. |
| Aesop | It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. |
| Aesop | Thinking to get at once all the gold the Goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find,- nothing. |
| Akiro Kurosawa | In a mad world, only the mad are sane. |
| Albert Jay Nock | The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile. |
| Alexander Bain | Instinct is untaught ability. |
| Alfred Whitney Griswold | The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas |
| Anthony Burgess | Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone. |
| Anton Pavlovich Chekhov | Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. |
| Anton Pavlovich Chekhov | You will not become a saint through other people's sins. |
| Aristophanes | The wise learn many things from their foes. |
| Arthur Koestler | ...the evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is low intelligence and high emotionality. |
| Arthur Koestler | Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, of degrees of awareness. |
| Arthur Koestler | The new frontiers to be conquered are mainly in the convolutions of the cortex. |
| Arthur Koestler | Brain-washing starts in the cradle. |
| Arthur Koestler | From the psychological point of view, the self-asserting emotions, derived from emergency reactions, involve a narrowing of consciousness; the participatory emotions an expansion of consciousness by identificatory processes of various kinds. |
| Arthur Koestler | ...the more original a discovery the more obvious it seems afterwards. |
| Arthur Koestler | The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. |
| Arthur Koestler | ...the integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies. |
| Babyface | Initially I wanted to be Muhammad Ali. But then I got into a fight and I got my butt kicked, so I figured I could choose something else. |
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