A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar. |
A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time. |
cheerfully slain in the name of the true religion, just policy, or correct ideology |
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. |
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. |
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. |
Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five |
God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out |
If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction |
If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out |
If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it out |
Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred. |
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion |
One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions. |
Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means. |