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“Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.”

Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church

“Nothing is more creative… nor destructive… than a brilliant mind with a purpose.”

Dan Brown book Inferno

Source: Inferno

“No-pocket jeans are only slightly less irritating than thong underwear.”

Patricia Briggs book River Marked

Source: River Marked

“I have the defect of being more
sincere than persons wish.”

Molière The Misanthrope

Source: The Misanthrope

“Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.”

George Sand book Métella

La vie ressemble plus souvent à un roman qu'un roman ne ressemble à la vie.
Metella, ch. 1 (1833); Robert J. Ackerman Perfect Daughters (Deerfield Beach, Fla.: HCI, 2002) p. 31

“But this didn'tlike magic. It felt a lot older than that. It felt like music.”

Terry Pratchett book Soul Music

Source: Soul Music

“Insomniacs know better than anyone how it would be to haunt a house.”

Michael Cunningham book By Nightfall

Source: By Nightfall

“Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear.”

Dan Brown book Inferno

Source: Inferno

“Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”

Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) American photographer

Alfred Stieglitz, as quoted in The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940, M. Orvell (1989). p. 220
Variant: There is a reality — so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. That's what I'm trying to get down in photography.

“Lust has less logic than love, sometimes, but it's easier to fight.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Killing Dance

Source: The Killing Dance

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

Variant: Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

“As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

Source: Julius Caesar

“There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

Often attributed to Hugo as a paraphrase of a similar idea in his Histore d'un Crime (1877): "One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas", the wording of this famous statement actually more closely resembles a passage from the relatively obscure Les Francs-Tireurs (1861) by Gustave Aimard, p. 68 https://books.google.com/books/about/Les_francs_tireurs.html?id=mKI4AQAAIAAJ: Il y a quelque chose de plus puissant que la force brutale des baïonnettes: c'est l'idée dont le temps est venu et l'heure est sonnée. There is something more powerful than the brute force of bayonets: it is the idea whose time has come and hour struck. Translated into English as The Freebooters : A Story of the Texan War (1861) https://archive.org/details/freebootersstory00aima, p. 57, Ward & Lock edition Misattributed Variant: More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.