Which Quotes

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

The oldest, shortest words - "yes" and "no" - are those which require the most thought.

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

The actor is in the hands of a lot of other people, over which he has no control.

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!