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- Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? — Friedrich Nietzsche
- What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce. — Mark Twain
- Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. — Henry David Thoreau
- Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive. — Nicolas Malebranche
- Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone. — Nicolas Malebranche
- You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood. — Nicolas Malebranche