For a house to be successful, the objects in it must communicate with one another, respond to and balance one another
Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.
Aid the dawning, tongue and pen; Aid it, hopes of honest men!
If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me.
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.
An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.
If you are too proud, you don't do business.
After illuminating the work of Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Louise Bourgeois, Balthus, and other modern artists, Mieke Bal again demonstrates her extraordinary flair for cultural criticism in taking on the work of Doris Salcedo, exploring the philosophical and aesthetic stakes of this committed political art and the relation between beauty, violence, and memory. A tour de force.
Berzelius' symbols are horrifying. A young student in chemistry might as soon learn Hebrew as make himself acquainted with them. . . They appear to me equally to perplex the adepts in science, to discourage the learner, as well as to cloud the beauty and simplicity of the atomic theory.
What really makes it an invention is that someone decides not to change the solution to a known problem, but to change the question.