S.A. David Quotes

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

The eye is the jewel of the body.

God save us from religion.

The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.

The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species which is being tested for viability in that niche.

Trust is an act of the mind, while obedience is an act of the hands and feet.

There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.

It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.

In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant.

If you're not at the front, you're not in the race.

Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation.

The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.

There are two traditions in Northern Ireland. There are two main religious denominations. But there is only one true moral denomination. And it wants peace.

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale.

If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative.

Big thinkers are specialists in creating positive, forward-looking, optimistic pictures in their own minds and in the minds of others.

Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.

With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.

The Goldschmidts had joined forces with other Rothschild cousins, the Bischoffsheims, to form a banking partnership which financed the North in the American Civil War.

I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it.

A crucial Elite group behind the Civil War was the Knights of the Golden Circle, again based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today, and that you should aid me tomorrow.

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel.

The greater part of mankind may be divided into two classes; that of shallow thinkers who fall short of the truth; and that of abstruse thinkers who go beyond it.

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

The Earth is a living, breathing entity. Without ongoing care and nurturing, there will be consequences too big to ignore.

With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story as well.

All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?

But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.

If you like music you like silence actually.

Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're thinking, you just act actually sometimes.

No one has ever asked to see my degree certificate.

I feel 30. [Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do.

How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once. We don't.

Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of geometry.

It's the stories that make my heart beat faster ...those are the ones to write about

Green clovers. Blue diamonds. Orange Stars. Pink hearts. Purple horseshoes. Man, I never know if I'm looking at a bowl of cereal or having another acid flashback.

He's got one of the best chins I've ever hit in my life. I was catching him and he was smiling at me, he was eating them. He's a great fighter, he'll be champion one day.

I believe I'm a born winner. I always think about winning.

The best companies are able to realize earnings in cash, not through calculations that belong in fantasyland.

Healing invokes the power of compassion, both for yourself and for others... At this point, the healed may become a healer.

I once didn't work out for six weeks. It took me for ever to get the weight off.