thus much curse I must send you in the behalf of all poets :—that while you live you live in love, & never get favor for lacking skill of a sonnet; & when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph.
- Sidney

[20] & Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, & that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.
[21] & the people stood afar off, & Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where
God was.
- Exodus 20:20-21

"Greedy vintners,...having read no more scripture than that miracle of Christ's turning water into wine, think to do a far stranger miracle than ever he did, by turning wine into water."
- Thomas Nashe

"...we know no better safe-guard against the threat to normal sexual life offered by defective innate dispositions or disturbances of development than sexual satisfaction itself."
- Sigismund Schlomo Freud

"[T]he practice and the use of mythological thought demand that its properties remain hidden: otherwise the subject would find himself in the position of the mythologist, who cannot believe in myths because it is his task to take them to pieces."
- Claude Lévi-Strauss

"Love is that which, splitting the H(x) from the f(x), restores to women, across the entire extent of the truth procedures, the universal quantifier."
- Alain Badiou

"Love is an inquiry of the world from the point of view of the Two, and not an inquiry of each term of the Two about the other."
- Alain Badiou

"When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, but Jacob was a peaceful man, living intense."
- Genesis 25:27 (JIV)

"19 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die. 20 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not. 21 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was."
- Exodus 20:19-21

“As happens in the case of an optical microscope, which is incapable of revealing the ultimate structure of matter to the observer, we can only choose between various degrees of enlargement: each one reveals a level of organization which has no more than a relative truth and, while it lasts, excludes the perception of other levels."
- Claude Lévi-Strauss