One might as well legalise sodomy as recognise the Bolsheviks.
There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same. . . happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.
The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.
The less you speak, the more you will hear.
A work of art contains its verification in itself: artificial, strained concepts do not withstand the test of being turned into images; they fall to pieces, turn out to be sickly and pale, convince no one. Works which draw on truth and present it to us in live and concentrated form grip us, compellingly involve us, and no one ever, not even ages hence, will come forth to refute them.
Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
Everybody acknowledges that the current path we're on is unsustainable, not just for the people who don't have health insurance but for those who do.
Carlsen came with a line that was not very theoretical, trying to challenge the World Champion to play chess. [. . . ] But Anand proved that even this obscure line is something he has studied before, and it was Carlsen that was set back.
Where good and ill together blent, Wage an undying strife.
You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.