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- When war is waged, it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly involved in this…
- The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war as an episode…
- The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is…
- The need for truth is more sacred than any other need.
- Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance between God and God, this…
- The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality,…
- One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is…
- There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
- The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make.
- When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or…
- For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no…
- Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also…
- The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.
- Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
- 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…
- I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
- Contemplating an object fixedly with the mind, asking myself, 'What is it?' without thinking of any other object or relating it to anything else for…
More Other Quotes
- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- Friendship is not only about sharing each and everything having long conversation, hanging out, its about having complete trust in each other… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle