Which Quotes

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.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

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