Paul Claudel Famous Quotes
"How amazing it is to be alive Anyone who lives and breathes and puts both feet on the ground, What possible reason could he have for envying the gods"
Paul Claudel Quotations
"Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose."
Richard Milhous Nixon
"My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then."
George Gordon Byron
In quarrels such as these not ours to intervene.
Virgil
"Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel."
Henry Louis Mencken
"Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station."
Joseph Addison
"Man...is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures."
Plato
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
Walter Benjamin
"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading."
Logan Pearsall Smith
"Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave."
Alvin Toffler
'I think therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
Miles Kindera