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- For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to…
- All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.
- A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.
- Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can…
- The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.
- Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.
- Without courage, all other virtues are useless.
- Preacher to me: 'A dollar for the Lord, brother?' Me to preacher: 'That's all right, I'm headed his way. I'll give it to him when…
- There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our…
- In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside…
- It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I…
- Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.
- Some of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution. A few more wore red coats, a few wore blue coats, and the rest wore no…
- All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.
- All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if…
- King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on…
- Is it possible to grow wiser without knowing it? One hopes so. We all hope so.
- It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.
- We know this apodictic rock beneath our feet. That dogmatic sun above our heads. The world of dreams, the agony of love and the foresight…
- The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.
- One must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information; (2) coherent knowledge; (3) deep understanding;…
- All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience!
- How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.
- In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.
- Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle