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Life Quotes by Ezra Pound
- All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing.…
- USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
- No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks…
- A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
- And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the…
- The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in…
- The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
- Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he…
- Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, until they have seen and lived at least part of their…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — 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 do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle