The Eternal Dinner Party

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

“Reality is merely a shadow on the cave wall.”

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is a habit.”

“God is dead, and we have killed him.”

“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”

“The banality of evil is the most terrifying thing of all.”

“The whole problem with the world is that fools are so certain and wise people so full of doubts.”

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”

“One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

“The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.”

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

“Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hatred, and hatred leads to violence.”

“I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves.”

“The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way.”

“Act only according to that maxim by which you can also will that it would become a universal law.”

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.”

“I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.”

“There is grandeur in this view of life.”

“The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.”

“Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.”

“The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

“We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”

“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”

“Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.”

“The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.”

“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”

“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”

“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.”

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”

“I can resist everything except temptation.”

“In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline.”

“I am not tragically colored. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood.”

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”

“The soul is healed by being with children.”

“All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you.”

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”

“I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.”

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

“By any means necessary.”

“It always seems impossible until it's done.”

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall never surrender.”

“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”

“Ain't I a woman?”

“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”

“I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it.”

“You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.”

“I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.”

“The only honest art form is laughter, comedy.”

“Ain't nothin' an old man can do for me but bring me a message from a young one.”

“It's just a ride.”

“Everything is copy.”

“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”

“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.”

“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”

“What a wonderful world.”

“I'll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.”

“The times they are a-changin'.”

“If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.”

“Do not fear mistakes. There are none.”

“I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.”

“I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down.”

“Being the Queen is not all about singing. It's about being a voice for the voiceless.”

“I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.”

“There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.”

“Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine.”

“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”

“The most dangerous phrase in the language is: We've always done it this way.”

“The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet.”

“Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.”

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. Build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

“That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.”

“The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.”

“The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination.”

“Justice is what love looks like in public.”

“The Dream thrives on generalization, on limiting the number of possible questions.”

“I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.”

“The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding.”

“Fiction is the most powerful force on earth.”

“Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up.”

“I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.”

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher that we expect our dinner, but from his regard to his own interest.”

“Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains.”

“What you seek is seeking you.”

“The most effective way to do it is to do it.”

“I will not be triumphed over.”

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation.”

“The mind is like an iceberg; it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.”

“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”

“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”

“I dwell in Possibility — A fairer House than Prose.”

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”

“The audacity of hope itself.”

“What's the deal with humanity?”

“A wild and crazy philosopher.”

“Uncontainable energy in human form.”

“When they go low, we go high.”

“The power of rock compels you.”

“It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.”

“Your body is not a temple. It's an amusement park.”

“Live your best life.”

“Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.”

“Be excellent to each other.”

“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.”

“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”

“Home is the nicest word there is.”

“Bullshit is everywhere.”