The Great Quotes thread

[rgray222]

Malicious envy is as a destructive, self-inflicting vice that seeks to ruin both the envier and the envied, often masquerading as moral indignation. It is the "ulcer of the soul," a "constant habit" of brooding malice, and an "insult to oneself."
Erich Fromm

[Raskolnikov]

"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."
Charles Bukowski

“There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.”
Will Rogers

[Bill Ryan]

Ignoramis et ignorabimus. (We do not know, and we will not know.)

Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physiologist, in an 1872 address in which he argued that some questions about nature would remain forever beyond human reach.

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Wir müssen wissen. Wir werden wissen. (We must know. We shall know.)

David Hilbert, German mathematician, in his 1930 retirement speech. The words were engraved on his gravestone.