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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.
Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.
Leaf! you are so big! How can you change your color, then just fall! As if there were no such thing as integrity!
Who could deny that our Austria is richer than any other country? As the saying goes: "We have money like manure.
No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.
The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.
Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.
If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.
It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.
One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God
I don't think I want to write a third book. But the more people talk to me about it, the more I think maybe I do.
Being a Muslim in America, I've noticed that there's a ton of crossover between the Muslim community and geekdom.
Are you willing to take the Big Leap to your ultimate level of success in love, money, and creative contribution?
All relationships are tough. Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony.
Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it's as if we are one person, with one mind, one destiny
Real change happens bit by bit. It takes great effort to become effortless at anything. There are no quick fixes.
We're always looking for the Big Love, the Big High, the next Big Thing to happen. We miss what's in front of us.
If you intend to take the journey of mastery, the best thing you can do is to arrange for first-rate instruction.
The hungrier one becomes, the clearer one's mind works— also the more sensitive one becomes to the odors of food.
I am one of the world's dreadful technophobes. I was on the internet, but it's broken down and I've unplugged it.
If you desecrate a white grave, you wind up sitting in prison. But desecrate an Indian grave, and you get a Ph.D.
Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the Reality and interested in telling about it.
Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime.
Dogs are dogs, you sometimes think that they are not but they are. And they always are here there and everywhere.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.
The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.
Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.
Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.
Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.
In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death
Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.
My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.
I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce.
Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
It's a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.
On spinach: I dislike it, and am happy to dislike it because if I liked it I would eat it, and I cannot stand it.
breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait... and peace will appear.
Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another.
People don't die from the old diseases any more. They die from new ones, but that's Progress, isn't it? Isn't it?
There in the midst of the Amazon Jungle, Simon Haskell has cobbled up for himself a replica of an Art Deco salon.
The war of my life had begun; and though one of God's most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered.
A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second.