My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Where love is, there God is also.
Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
I saw few die of hunger of eating, a hundred thousand.
If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
Trust not too much to appearances.
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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