New Quotations |
New entries: Quotes recently added to Best-Quotations.
 | Beauty tricks the flesh to get permission to reach the soul. — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 08-03-2024 |
 | A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth. — Thomas Mann, 1875-1955, German writer [Nobel 1929] 08-01-2024 |
| A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. — Thomas Mann, 1875-1955, German writer [Nobel 1929] 07-31-2024 |
| One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights. — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 07-31-2024 |
 | If you don't have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy. — Alvin Toffler, 1928-2016, American writer & futurist 07-31-2024 |
| The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. — Alvin Toffler, 1928-2016, American writer & futurist 07-31-2024 |
| People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives. — Thomas Mann, 1875-1955, German writer [Nobel 1929] 07-30-2024 |
| Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil. — Thomas Mann, 1875-1955, German writer [Nobel 1929] 07-30-2024 |
| War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. — Thomas Mann, 1875-1955, German writer [Nobel 1929] 07-30-2024 |
| The spiritual meaning of Christianity is complete with the death of Christ on the cross; there was no need for the icing on the cake which is the Resurrection. — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 07-30-2024 |
| We only know one thing about God: He is what we are not. — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 07-30-2024 |
| The word “revolution” is a word for which you kill, for which you die, for which you send the masses of the workers to death, but which ultimately has no meaning. — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 07-30-2024 |
| The Gospels are the last and most wonderful expression of Greek genius, as the Iliad was its first expression. — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 07-30-2024 |
| Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling. — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 07-30-2024 |
| Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating. — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 07-30-2024 |
| When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door. — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 07-30-2024 |
| In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time. — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 07-30-2024 |
| The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering, but a supernatural use for it. — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 07-30-2024 |
| A mind enclosed in language is in prison. — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 07-30-2024 |
| Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 07-30-2024 |
| It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people. — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 07-30-2024 |
| Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity. — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 07-30-2024 |
| Fire destroys that which feeds it. — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 07-30-2024 |
| If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money. — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 07-30-2024 |
| The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it. — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 07-30-2024 |
| Evil when we are under its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty. — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 07-30-2024 |
| Power... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood. — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 07-30-2024 |
| All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time. — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 07-30-2024 |
| It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves. — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 07-30-2024 |
| All sins are attempts to fill the emptiness. — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 07-30-2024 |
| Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny . — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 07-30-2024 |
| To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 07-30-2024 |
| Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on. — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 07-30-2024 |
| Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 07-30-2024 |
| The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets. — Alvin Toffler, 1928-2016, American writer & futurist 07-30-2024 |
| Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock. — Alvin Toffler, 1928-2016, American writer & futurist 07-30-2024 |
| Never in history has distance meant less. — Alvin Toffler, 1928-2016, American writer & futurist 07-30-2024 |
| The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. — Alvin Toffler, 1928-2016, American writer & futurist 07-30-2024 |
| One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again. — Alvin Toffler, 1928-2016, American writer & futurist 07-30-2024 |
| Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor. — Alvin Toffler, 1928-2016, American writer & futurist 07-30-2024 |
| Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways — Alvin Toffler, 1928-2016, American writer & futurist 07-30-2024 |
| Change is the process by which the future invades our lives. — Alvin Toffler, 1928-2016, American writer & futurist 07-30-2024 |
| Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time. — Alvin Toffler, 1928-2016, American writer & futurist 07-30-2024 |
| You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. — Alvin Toffler, 1928-2016, American writer & futurist 07-30-2024 |
| The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success. — Alvin Toffler, 1928-2016, American writer & futurist 07-30-2024 |
| If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse. — Alvin Toffler, 1928-2016, American writer & futurist 07-30-2024 |
| Degenerated to a wretched level of the masses, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism erupted into hysterical barbarism. — Thomas Mann, 1875-1955, German writer [Nobel 1929] 07-29-2024 |
| In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius. — Thomas Mann, 1875-1955, German writer [Nobel 1929] 07-29-2024 |
| I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had. — Thomas Mann, 1875-1955, German writer [Nobel 1929] 07-29-2024 |
| Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word? — Thomas Mann, 1875-1955, German writer [Nobel 1929] 07-29-2024 |
| A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. — Thomas Mann, 1875-1955, German writer [Nobel 1929] 07-29-2024 |
| Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul. — Thomas Mann, 1875-1955, German writer [Nobel 1929] 07-29-2024 |
| True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world. — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 07-28-2024 |
 | War is the continuation of politics by other means. — Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831, Prussian military theorist 01-02-2024 |
| No military leader became great without audacity. — Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831, Prussian military theorist 01-02-2024 |
 | One can acquire everything by solitude, except character. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-02-2024 |
 | There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance. — Gottfried Leibnitz, 1646-1716, German philosopher & mathematician 01-01-2024 |
 | I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go. — Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924, British-Polish writer 01-01-2024 |
 | There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall. — Cyril Connolly, 1903-1974, British writer 01-01-2024 |
| No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life. — Cyril Connolly, 1903-1974, British writer 01-01-2024 |
| Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do. — Cyril Connolly, 1903-1974, British writer 01-01-2024 |
| A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends. — Cyril Connolly, 1903-1974, British writer 01-01-2024 |
| In war, more than anywhere else, things never turn out the way we expect them to. — Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831, Prussian military theorist 01-01-2024 |
| There can only be one decisive victory: the last one. — Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831, Prussian military theorist 01-01-2024 |
| If we want to secure peace, let us prepare for war. — Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831, Prussian military theorist 01-01-2024 |
| Everything in war is very simple, but even the simplest is very difficult. — Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831, Prussian military theorist 01-01-2024 |
| It is better to act quickly and be wrong than to hesitate and let the time for action pass. — Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831, Prussian military theorist 01-01-2024 |
| If defense is the stronger form of war, yet has a negative object, it follows that it should be used only so long as weakness compels, and be abandoned as soon as we are strong enough to pursue a positive object. — Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831, Prussian military theorist 01-01-2024 |
| Every suspension of offensive action, either from erroneous views, from fear or from indolence, is in favor of the side acting defensively. — Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831, Prussian military theorist 01-01-2024 |
| Although our logic seeks clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty exciting. — Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831, Prussian military theorist 01-01-2024 |
| In war we primarily strike at the enemy’s center of gravity. — Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831, Prussian military theorist 01-01-2024 |
| Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference. — Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831, Prussian military theorist 01-01-2024 |
| The world has a way of undermining complex plans. This is particularly true in fast moving environments. A fast moving environment can evolve more quickly than a complex plan can be adapted to it. By the time you have adapted, the target has changed. — Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831, Prussian military theorist 01-01-2024 |
| Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity. — Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831, Prussian military theorist 01-01-2024 |
| Blind aggressiveness would destroy the attack itself, not the defense. — Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831, Prussian military theorist 01-01-2024 |
| Boldness becomes rarer, the higher the rank. — Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831, Prussian military theorist 01-01-2024 |
| A strong character is one that will not be unbalanced by the most powerful emotions. — Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831, Prussian military theorist 01-01-2024 |
| The side that feels the lesser urge for peace will naturally get the better bargain. — Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831, Prussian military theorist 01-01-2024 |
| The essential quality of a historian is not to be able to invent. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| A strange thing: The Enlightenment period in Italy ended when petty bloodthirsty tyrants were replaced by moderate monarchs. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| Russians imitate French ways, but always from a distance of fifty years. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| Pleasure is often destroyed when we try to describe it. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| Power, after love, is the first source of happiness. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| A woman in her forties has value only to the men who loved her in her youth. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the intelligence of the few. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| There is much less envy in America than in France. And much less spirit. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| Luck grabs you by the hair, but she herself is bald. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| God's only excuse is that He doesn't exist. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| Tears are an extreme smile. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| Whatever diplomats and poets may say, the most important trait of language is clarity. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| Beauty is a promise of happiness. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| One must give the conquest of a woman the attention one gives to a game of billiards. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| Old age is nothing but the absence of craziness, the loss of illusion and passion. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| It's not so much being rich that brings happiness, it's becoming rich. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| The only way of touching a heart is to wound it. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| I love her beauty, but I fear her mind. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| I used to think of death like I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| A good book is an event in my life. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| People happy in love have an air of intensity. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| Our true passions are selfish. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| What is really beautiful must always be true. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| The only unhappiness is a life of boredom. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| When you want to court a woman, court her sister first. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| Women prefer feelings over logic. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| The most useful idea for tyrants is the idea of God. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 01-01-2024 |
| Style is everyone’s unique way of expressing the same thing. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 12-29-2023 |
