Which Quotes

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

I came from a lot of intolerance and prejudice, which aren't necessarily healthy to evolve as a human.

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.