We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter second, telling other people to do so.
As for doing good that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
That government is best which governs least.
Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Be not simply good - be good for something.
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
History is written by the victors.
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
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