New Quotations in English
I insist on your freedom.
Two mirrors facing each other. There is no image in between.
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Oh yes, things exist like the echo
When you yell at the foot
Of a huge mountain.
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.
Nothing is accomplished by writing a piece of music.
Nothing is accomplished by playing a piece of music.
Nothing is accomplished by hearing a piece of music.
The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
We live in a world of abstraction, a world of bureaucracy and machinery, of absolute ideas and of messianism without subtlety.
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.
I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: "Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you." … The twenty-five percent is for error.
It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health.
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
