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- But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the…
- The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer…
- It is most certainly a good thing that the world knows only the beautiful opus but not its origins, not the conditions of its creation;…
- And then the sly arch-lover that he was, he said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was nearer the divine than the beloved;…
- It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting his…
- Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly used up. It…
- To allow only the kind of art that the average man understands is the worst small-mindedness and the murder of mind and spirit. It is…
- Isn't it grand, isn't it good, that language has only one word for everything we associate with love - from utter sanctity to the most…
- And lending it one mental fillip the more, the fact that all these people were inwardly attacked by well-nigh resistless decay, and that most of…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — 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 most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster