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- What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to…
- We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The…
- The need for truth is more sacred than any other need.
- In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
- I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
- Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
- Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.
- The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.
- There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
- Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no…
- I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of…
- More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a…
- When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value,…
- It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is…
- Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams