New Quotations in English
The history of empires is the history of human misery.
So long, unwashed Russia,
The land of slaves and overlords,
And you, blue uniforms,
And you, devoted to them folk.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!
All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.
Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
The beautiful is always bizarre.
An ethical man doesn't need a consensus of his allies in order to act against something he finds reprehensible.
Art is a spirit seeking flesh but finding words.
The moment you follow someone you cease to follow truth.
What your foes do derives its significance or consequence from the way you react.
Articulation lags behind experience. That doesn’t go well with the psyche. Sentiments, nuances, thoughts, perceptions that remain nameless, unable to be voiced and dissatisfied with approximations, get pent up within an individual and may lead to a psychological explosion or implosion.
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful.
Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.
I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.
It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.
Without the sense of collaborating with like-minded beings in the pursuit of the ever unattainable in art and scientific research, my life would have been empty.
It is the hour to be drunken! To escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
