Archive for the 'quote' Category

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

• October 14, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Never stand begging for what you have the power to earn.

• October 8, 2009 • Leave a Comment

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

• September 30, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

• September 24, 2009 • Leave a Comment

My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.

• September 24, 2009 • Leave a Comment

At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.

• September 24, 2009 • Leave a Comment

The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.

• September 22, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Art for art’s sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own.

• September 22, 2009 • Leave a Comment

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

• September 21, 2009 • Leave a Comment

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

• September 17, 2009 • Leave a Comment