A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.
The superfluous is very necessary.
Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)
In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.
Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.
Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
Work is often the father of pleasure.
It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.
This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity
My prayer to God is a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous! God has granted it.
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.
Dwight D Eisenhower
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
Woody Allen
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..
I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final. You know, I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one's own personal, social, emotional reasons. It's something to be avoided if one can help it.
John Lennon
You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.
I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend, and my best friend's my wife. Who could ask for anything more?
We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know which will go first; rock and roll or Christianity.
Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.
I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.
I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.
And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.
The more I see the less I know for sure.
We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.
Woman is the Nigger of the World.
Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first -- rock and roll or Christianity.
One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.
Aldo Leopold
You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.
Julie de Lespinasse
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
Claude LeviStrauss
Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.
The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.
I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.
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