He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
Politics is the womb in which war develops.
There are cases in which the greatest daring is the greatest wisdom.
Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena. . . . But when they come to the aesthetics of their work, when they aim at a particular effect on the mind or on the senses, the rules dissolve into nothing but vague ideas.
War is merely a continuation of politics.
Intelligence alone is not courage, we often see that the most intelligent people are irresolute. Since in the rush of events a man is governed by feelings rather than by thought, the intellect needs to arouse the quality of courage, which then supports and sustains it in action.
If you entrench yourself behind strong fortifications, you compel the enemy seek a solution elsewhere.
Where are you now?’ Where was I now? Gripping the receiver, I raised my hand and turned to see what lay beyond the telephone booth. Where was I now? I had no idea. No idea at all. Where was this place? All that flashed into my eyes were the countless shapes of people walking by to nowhere. Again and again, I called out for Midori from the dead center of this place that was no place.
Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.
I'm at the eye doctor. I'm always at the eye doctor. It's like this is my profession. I am no longer a writer, I'm now an optomoligical patient. By the way, this job doesn't pay well.
Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.