“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.”
History“Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.”
Religion“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.”
History“Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.”
Society“The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.”
Experience“Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.”
Best“The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.”
Art“Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.”
Women“Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.”
Music“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
History“The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age.”
Age“A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud.”
Change“Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.”
Religion“The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.”
Art“Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.”
Knowledge“One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”
Friendship“To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.”
Positive“Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.”
Peace“Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.”
Alone“Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.”
Experience“Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.”
Money“It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.”
Truth