Joseph Brodsky Famous Quotes
Life-the way it really is-is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.
"I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change-within himself, not on the outside."
"No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there-well or poorly."
"For aesthetics is the mother of ethics. Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe-not empirically, alas, but only theoretically-that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens."
Joseph Brodsky Quotations
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.
John Gunther
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
Bertrand Russell
"The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult the day he forgives himself he becomes wise."
Alden Nowlan
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Mark Twain
"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Nobody, as long as he moves about among the currents of life, is without trouble."
Carl Gustav Jung
I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun
Death hath so many doors to let out life.
John Fletcher
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."
Abraham Lincoln
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick