“Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.”
Source: Les fleurs de mal: Petits poèmes en prose, Les paradis artificiels
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“The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before he is defeated.”
“You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.”
“Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.”
“Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.”
Source: Taking the stand: the testimony of Lieutenant Colonel Oliver L. North
“Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.”
“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.”
“The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.”
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
“As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.”
Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
Source: Thomas Paine on Liberty: Including Common Sense and Other Writings
“What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.”
Source: Behan Complete Plays
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”
Source: Alternating Current
Source: The People Of The Lie
“Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?”
“I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.”
“History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.”
“One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly
“90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.”
Source: Race: Science and Politics
“It's a very good historical book about history.”
Source: The man who would be president: Dan Quayle