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The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.

If I talk about her like she's a being It's because talking about her I need to use the language of men Which gives personality to things, And imposes a name on things.

Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God (Vox Populi, Vox Dei), since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness. -- Letter to Charlemagne, 800 AD.

It seems timely, therefore, to segregate the components, and to examine the distinctive characteristics or properties of each.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners — let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

We cannot understand the modern age without understanding the dynamic history of Protestant Christianity.

The kind of sociopolitical structure that Protestantism engenders—based on free inquiry, participatory politics, and limited government—tends to favor market economics.

The real novelty of our own time is not the prominence of the religious Right but the silence of the religious Left.

Luther's fire caught because fuel had been quietly building up for some time. The principal fuel was desire for reform of the church.

Each word is you begging to utter it. Each word is the long invitation to memory.

En la pampa legendaria donde relincha el peludo había una yegua muerta con una flor en el culo.

Before the war, the domain of culture seemed to offer a haven from the increasingly hateful world of politics. Now, when I hear the word culture, I pull out the quote commonly attributed to Hermann Goring: "When I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver.

I deigned to suggest to him that it was also the American thing -- America was nothing if not good intentions.

Your fey cousin here has the miraculous ability to hold his liquor--and mine, and yours, and the king's, and half the country's, I expect.

She saw no harm in letting a handsome, powerful man adore her for a while.

unless I'm miraculously rescued by an idiot who thinks beauty is a weakness.

It's more powerful than a regular dragon," said Master Kung.

As man is a being of self-made wealth, so he is a being of self-made soul.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. Atlas

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