Quotes 321 till 340 of 559.
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Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.
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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
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Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
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Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.
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Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.
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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
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Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
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Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.
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Pornography is the quadraphonics of sex. It adds a third and fourth track to the sexual act. It is the hallucination of detail that rules. Science has already habituated us to this microscopics, this excess of the real in its microscopic detail, this voyeurism of exactitude.
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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.
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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
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Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.
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Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
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Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
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Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
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