• Art and Culture

  It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

  3.7 · 6 votes · 5 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

  4.6 · 15 votes · 151 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  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.

  4.3 · 46 votes · 49 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

  3.5 · 45 votes · 45 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not lik

  4.8 · 38 votes · 144 reads

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• Society

  Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

  4.7 · 41 votes · 196 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

  4.0 · 41 votes · 5 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

  4.1 · 30 votes · 126 reads

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• Various

  Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

  3.6 · 38 votes · 81 reads

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• Nature

  Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go downhill. Hermits have observed, if for only this reason, a frugal diet. For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food

  4.2 · 43 votes · 95 reads

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• Art and Culture

  The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.

  3.4 · 15 votes · 191 reads

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• Various

  The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

  5.0 · 35 votes · 57 reads

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• Virtues

  The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

  3.7 · 13 votes · 157 reads

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• Various

  The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

  4.8 · 55 votes · 81 reads

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• Time

  The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

  4.2 · 5 votes · 92 reads

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• Nature

  We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

  4.3 · 9 votes · 31 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

  3.6 · 60 votes · 181 reads

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