Italy, Orson Welles
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love and five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
- Orson Welles as the character Harry Lime in the film The Third Man (1949)
Art, Aldo Leopold
Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.
― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other Essays on Conservation from Round River
Growth, Edward Abbey
Growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness.
- Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire, "Water", p. 114 (1968)
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- Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire, "Water", p. 114 (1968)
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Religion·Faith, Fyodor Dostoevsky
If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils
Appearance, Agnes Repplier
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
- Agnes Repplier
- Agnes Repplier
Action, Beaumont and Fletcher
Of every noble action the intent
Is to give worth reward, vice punishment.
- Beaumont and Fletcher, The Captain (c. 1609–12; published 1647), Act V, scene 5.
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Is to give worth reward, vice punishment.
- Beaumont and Fletcher, The Captain (c. 1609–12; published 1647), Act V, scene 5.
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End, Nikolai Berdyaev
What one needs to do at every moment of one's life is to put an end to the old world and to begin a new world.
- Nikolai Berdyaev, in The Beginning and the End (1947)
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- Nikolai Berdyaev, in The Beginning and the End (1947)
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Eternity, Henry Brooks Adams
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.
- Henry Brooks Adams, in The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
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- Henry Brooks Adams, in The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
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Automobiles and transport, Roland Barthes
I think cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals. I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.
- Roland Barthes' The New Citroën (1957)
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- Roland Barthes' The New Citroën (1957)
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