My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.
Life is a loss of time.
Gerhard Kocher
No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)
The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless.
Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.
The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.
Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.
Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.
All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.
Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother.
Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.
The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.
It is only through timidity that states are lost.
Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.
Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.
Work keeps at bay, three great evils -- boredom, vice and need.
Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.
You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.
The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.
Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter among themselves. Their intercourse: this is the whole of painting. Whoever meddles, arranges, injects his human deliberation, his wit, his advocacy, his intellectual agility in any way, is already disturbing and clouding their activity.
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of.
From THE SONNETS TO ORPHEUS
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
Tom Robbins
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.
Cavett Robert
A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
When it's foggy in the pulpit it's cloudy in the pew.
To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence hollering, What's it for?
Robert Fulghum
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