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- The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by…
- The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch…
- Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many.…
- For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then…
- The only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away.
- There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.
- A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection - not an invitation…
- I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote…
- "You cannot believe what you are saying." "Well, no. Hardly ever. But the philosopher is like the poet. The latter composes ideal letters for an…
- There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of…
- Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding.…
- Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies…
- A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the…
- Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
- Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.
- I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
- I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.
- The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be…
- Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is to entertain. These…
- My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of…
- The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent…
- If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent tales, otherwise your…
- Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei, and she guessed…
- Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of…
- Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.
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- Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle