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Henri Frédéric Amiel

It expresses an inveterate hopefulness and openness toward the future that has often been hard to sustain in the three decades since its publication but which characterizes Lefebvre's philosophically induced intellectual and political optimism.

The Surrealist supernatural is a bit predictable but given the choice between supernatural and anything else, I would have no hesitation. Long live supernatural!

The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law.

Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.

I don't have time every day to put on makeup. I need that time to clean my rifle.

To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom—they are the pillars of society.

The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority.

The philosopher says--I am, and the church scouts his philosophy. She answers:--No! you are NOT, you have no existence of your own. You were and are and ever will be only a part of the supreme I AM, of which the church is the emblem.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, had always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

Namby Pamby's little rhymes,Little jingle, little chimes.

The "field" encompassed in the "science of the Imagination" is so vast that it is difficult to enumerate all its sectors.

The reason the story runs so much with the little girls are the actual heroes in the warfare is because under most circumstances women are braver than men ..

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

O Amor é a regra que resume todas as outras regras. O Amor é o mandamento que justifica todos os outros mandamentos.

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.

His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.