Which Quotes

Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.

A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

Love is a game in which one always cheats.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.