Quotes
Quotes about Cause
If I am remembered for nothing else, I should like to be remembered for one sentence: 'He breathed baffingly on him, for no banquet would serve, because of the known redolence of onions, onions, onions'
Music is a purer art (than literature) because it has no direct relationship to human events. It is totally outside the field of moral judgment
If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence
They are at least logical that say to castigate folly you must first exhibit folly as a castigable thing, and in showing folly you thus cause more folly
If man is not good, it is because he has not yet learned to be good. He can learn, however
Because you do not believe it does not mean it is not all true ... eternal life, eternal damnation - these are real, whether you believe or not
It stands to reason you've got to have a war. Not because anybody wants it, of course, but because there's an army. An army here and an army there and armies all over the shop. Armies is for wars and war is for armies
Why are we fighting? We are fighting because we are soldiers. That's simple enough, isn't it?
The soul may come into existence because of tyranny. The tyrant takes everything from us so we are forced to believe. We are left with something. This something we call the soul
Because you have cast off the troublesome burden of inconvenient belief in eternal and condign punishment you have not thereby changed the divinely ordained reality
Your life was empty and you needed to fill it up again. So you chose the socialist cause. As a substitute for love. Not very flattering to the socialist cause
I love him because he is a human soul, and I regret that his pure humanity, which issued from the hand of a God in whom he does not believe, has been so foully sullied by the devils of greed and power which have clearly taken possession of him. I would like to purge him of those devils, but, in his perversity, he is happy to be possessed.
The linguistic specialist ... is scared of the semantic element in his subject. Phonemes and morphemes cause him no difficulty, but once you start studying meaning you're into culture
I had never yet had a bad dream when sleeping in Rome, perhaps because all the badness of life there was reserved to the waking time. Here was the sewer of history, and it was an open sewer
Adam was but human-- this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.
"If I love you, what is that to you?" We say so because we feel that what we love is not in your will, but above it. It is not you, but your radiance. It is that which you know not in yourself and can never know.
If you deal carelessly with bees you will injure them,and will yourself be injured. And so with men. It cannot be otherwise, because natural love is the fundamental law of human life.
"Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source."
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
If he does not fight, it is not because he rejects all fighting as futile, but because he has finished his fights. He has overcome all dissensions between himself and the world and is now at rest... We shall have wars and soldiers so long as the brute in us is untamed.
Defeat is worse than death because you have to live with defeat.
I have not seen as far as others because giants were standing on
The chief cause of problems is solutions.
Worry kills more people than work because more people worry than work.
If I have not seen so far it is because I stood in giant's footsteps.
