Age Quotes - Page 248

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

I never felt I left the stage.

From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.

There will be selfishness and greed and corruption and narrowness and intolerance in the world tomorrow and tomorrow's tomorrow. But pray God we may have the courage and the wisdom and the vision to raise a definite standard that will appeal to the best that is in man, and then strive mightily toward that goal.

Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.

Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved.

The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth... Liberty is not a thing for the great masses of men. It is the exclusive possession of a small and disreputable minority, like knowledge, courage and honor. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty - and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies.

Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.

I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.

Education is worth a whole lot. Just think - with enough education and brains the average man would make a good lawyer - and so would the average lawyer.

Quiet talk is the language of love. It is the language of peace. It is the language of God.

I have always felt comedy and tragedy are roommates. If you look up comedy and tragedy, you will find a very old picture of two masks. One mask is tragedy. It looks like its crying. The other mask is comedy. It looks like its laughing. Nowadays, we would say, How tasteless and insensitive. A comedy mask is laughing at a tragedy mask.

You can compare it to dreams: you have a very specific and individual pictorial language that you either accept or that you can translate rashly and wrongly. Of course, you can ignore dreams, but that would be a shame, because they're useful.

Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.

A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.

Working with language is a means by which we can identify the bullshit within ourselves (and others).

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

Short boughs, long vintage.

Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage.