Paul Valéry

“Politics is the art of stopping people from minding their own business”. –Paul Valéry

William Whewell

“Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation”. –William Whewell

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth”. –Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Francis Quarles

“Even such is man, whose glory lends His life a blaze or two, and ends”. –Francis Quarles

Novalis

“We are near awakening when we dream that we dream”. –Novalis

Abu Bakr

“Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives”. –Abu Bakr

Geoffrey Chaucer

“For thogh we slepe, or wake, or rome, or ryde, Ay fleeth the tyme; it nyl no man abyde”. –Geoffrey Chaucer

Edgar Allan Poe

“The death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world”. –Edgar Allan Poe