“The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force ... The essential condition of such a strategy is that the drain on him should be disproportionately greater than on oneself.” ShouldReasonForceGreaterConditionsMilitaryBalanceEssentialsAimStrategyOneselfUsualDrainsAdopting Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“It is essential... that discipline should not be practised like a rule imposed on oneself from the outside, but that it becomes an expression of one's own will; that it is felt as pleasant, and that one slowly accustoms oneself to a kind of behaviour which one would eventually miss, if one stopped practising it.” IfsShouldKindFeltMissingExpressionDisciplineEssentialsOneselfPleasantBehaviour Author:Erich Fromm
“The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The observation of the unconscious, so far as it can be observed, should reveal things of which we have previously been unconscious, not the familiar things of which we have been conscious plus imagination.” ShouldHas BeensPlayImaginationEssentialsConsciousFaultsFamiliarObservationUnconsciousPlusDiscoveringSurrealismAccordionsClamsFamiliar Things Book:Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
“It is essential..that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless you have such rules and principles, there will be numberless occasions on which you will have no guide for your government but your passions..It is in the Bible, you must learn them, and from the Bible how to practice them.” ShouldGovernmentFormCertainPassionPrinciplesPracticeEssentialsBibleGuidesOccasionsTemper Author:John Quincy Adams
“It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own limitations. It is essential for the growth of reason that as individuals we should bow to forces and obey principles which we cannot hope fully to understand, yet on which the advance and even the preservation of civilization depend.” ShouldHumansMayImportantReasonIndividualForceDifficultGrowthPrinciplesDependsCivilizationProveEssentialsTasksLimitationBowsPreservationHuman Reason Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.” ShouldLooksLongNationsGrowingEssentialsCharacteristicsPrudenceForesight Book:In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena Source: In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena
“It is essential that the revelation we receive, the conception of an image which embraces a certain thing, which has no sense in itself, which has no subject, which means 'absolutely nothing' from the logical point of view.. ..should speak so strongly in us, evoke such agony or joy, that we feel compelled to paint.” FeelsShouldMeanDesireCertainSpeakViewsSubjectsEssentialsEmbracePaintPoint Of ViewRevelationsLogicalConceptionCompelledAbsolutely Nothing Author:Giorgio de Chirico