Saul Quotes
If you are not highly educated, you will need to abandon your anxiety and fear of reading and doing research.
Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them.
We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves.
The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a certain famous person said them.
I wonder if "an" ever occurs before "haughty" except in a quotation, or whether you can make anything sound like a quotation by adding a word like "goeth"?
Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes. Only certain sorts of extracts become quotations.
United States:. A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies.
In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector in society.
It is the considered opinion of most members of our rational élites that, in any given difference of opinion with reality, reality is wrong.
Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated.
Freud, Sigmund: A man so dissatisfied with his own mother and father that he devoted his life to convincing everyone who would listen — or better still, talk — that their parents were just as bad.
If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and so cover for the manager's inability to give leadership.
There is no need to search for global solutions, apart from an absolute necessity to destroy the idea that such things exist.
People can be motivated to creativity simply with the instruction to "be creative."
The journey from not knowing to knowing was his work. He was selling his desire to learn about a subject.
It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.
The fact that people are poor or discriminated against doesn't necessarily endow them with any special qualities of justice, nobility, charity or compassion.
The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people. When an action is outside the experience of the people, the result is confusion, fear, and retreat.
A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.
I am more stupid about some things than others; not equally stupid in all directions; I am not a well-rounded person.
An exchange occurs between man and woman. Love and thought complete each other in the human pair, and something like an exchange of souls takes place, according to the divine plan.
I don’t actually take much stock in the collapsing culture bit. I’m beginning to see it instead as the conduct of life without input from your soul.
I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog.
The terms which, in his inmost heart, each man knows. As I know mine. As all know. For that is the truth of it — that we all know, God, that we know, that we know, we know, we know.
Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.
One must bear in mind the odd angle or slant that the rays of love have to take in order to reach a heart like mine.
I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution.
It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality.
There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by.