Abstractions.

They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of
thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few
streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists
no longer except as a pain in the memory, like the pain of an amputated
leg no longer there.
GRAHAM GREENE

War: First, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then,
one is satisfied that he too is suffering. In the end, one is surprised
that everyone has lost.
KARL KRAUS

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well
tried before you give them your confidence.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in
a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.
LYNDON JOHNSON

Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in
jeopardy.
JOHN DEWEY

All television is educational television. The question is: What is it
teaching?
NICHOLAS JOHNSON

When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is
persecution; but when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do,
that is law, order, and morals.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
ALBERT CAMUS

God is shorthand for talking about everything all at once.
UNKNOWN

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is
nowhere.
ST. AUGUSTINE

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
ALFRED JARRY

I could not say I believe. I know!
CARL JUNG

Impiety: Your irreverence toward my deity.
AMBROSE BIERCE

Compiled by Jeremy Klein