When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
A joke is a very serious thing.
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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