15 quotes found
“If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.”
“One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.”
“A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.”
“Your educators can only be your liberators.”
“Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation and decoration []...”
“A waitress, bringing Finkler more hot water, interrupted Treslove's answer. Finkler always asked for more hot water no matter how much hot water had already been brought. It was his way of assertin...”
“To leave is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
“It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer...”
“The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.”
“Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.”
“What really arouses indignation against suffering is not suffering as such but the senselessness of suffering...”
“Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.”
“And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.”
“Generally speaking, punishment makes men hard and cold; it concentrates; it sharpens the feeling of alienation; it strengthens the power of resistance”
“We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge--and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves--how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves?”
