Charles Du Bos Famous Quotes
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
The important thing is this to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
Charles Du Bos Quotations
"Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection."
Francis Bacon
"If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy you don't make them because they are cheap you don't make them because they're popular you make them because *they're right*.
Theodore Hesburgh
"He was my friend, faithful, and just to meBut Brutus says, he was ambitious,And Brutus is an honorable man.He hath brought many captives home to Rome,Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill.Did this in Caesar seem ambitiousWhen the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept.Ambition should me made of sterner stuff,Yet Brutus says, he was ambitiousAnd Brutus is an honorable man."
William Shakespeare
I think it every man's indispensable duty to do all the service he can to his country and I see not what difference he puts between himself and his cattle who lives without that thought.
John Locke
To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true
H L Mencken
"I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music."
George Eliot
War is like love it always finds a way.
Bertolt Brecht
Trying to be normal is the greatest abnormality in the world.
Becky Alunan
"Love flies, runs, and rejoices it is free and nothing can hold it back."
Thomas a Kempis