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- No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead…
- The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another…
- Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.
- One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
- It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.
- Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing…
- Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.
- Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested…
- What I really hoped for, no doubt, was to come upon one of those lives which begin nowhere, which lead us through marshes and salt…
- Even the idiot may have a message for us
- Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to…
- What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the public dance the…
- For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has…
- There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our time is eating us…
- She rises up out of a sea of faces and embraces me, embraces me passionately--- a thousand eyes, noses, fingers, legs, bottles, windows, purses, saucers…
- The cancer of time is eating us away
- It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them, the wrong-minded ones,…
- Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, teacher, saint, statesman, warrior -…
- But you can’t put fight into a man’s guts if he hasn’t any fight in him. There are some of us so cowardly that you…
- To love! To surrender absolutely, to prostrate oneself before the divine image, to die a thousand imaginary deaths, to annihilate every trace of self, to…
- Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.
- The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.
- The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very familiar and intimate…
- There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies.…
- Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would be realize it, than to…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong