Which Quotes

There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.

To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

We need to reclaim our American system of limited government, low taxes, reasonable regulations, and sound money, which has blessed us with unprecedented prosperity. And it has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.