Does Quotes

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.

The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

That thought process that somehow other people have to be worse off in order for you to be better off does not work. People get on boats people jump fences to get away from that kind of thought process.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.

I love being a wife and homemaker - because it's my choice. My husband doesn't expect me to do it. I don't mind doing things for him because he does so much for me; we both feel that way so there is no power struggle.

True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.

What writing does is to reveal.

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

It doesn't matter what one says; it matters what one does.

I had insecurities and fears like everybody does, and I got over it. But I was interested in the parts of me that struggled with those things.