💬 Quotes
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"Our institutions rob us of our right to breath, to keep in touch with nature, to have a healthy body and a clear brain."
— Anarchism and Other Essaysby Emma Goldman
"Preparedness is a system, hatched by military experts and armament kings, to crush the labor movement and to rivet the chains of economic slavery upon the workers."
— Anarchism and Other Essaysby Emma Goldman
"The state is the ultimate arbiter of all conflicts; the decisive authority in all matters of property, of life, and of death."
— Anarchism and Other Essaysby Emma Goldman
"El concepto es un acto del entendimiento que exprime la correspondencia que se halla entre los objetos."
— Agudeza y arte de ingenio, en que se explican todos los modos y differencias de conceptos, con ejemplares escogidos de todo lo más bien dicho, assi facto, como hymanoby Baltasar Gracián y Morales
"Lo bueno, si breve, dos veces bueno; y aun lo malo, si poco, no tan malo."
— Agudeza y arte de ingenio, en que se explican todos los modos y differencias de conceptos, con ejemplares escogidos de todo lo más bien dicho, assi facto, como hymanoby Baltasar Gracián y Morales
"Consiste la agudeza en una eximia concordancia, en un armónico enlace entre los extremos."
— Agudeza y arte de ingenio, en que se explican todos los modos y differencias de conceptos, con ejemplares escogidos de todo lo más bien dicho, assi facto, como hymanoby Baltasar Gracián y Morales
"No basta que el concepto sea sutil; ha de ser verdadero, porque la mayor sutileza sin verdad es vanidad."
— Agudeza y arte de ingenio, en que se explican todos los modos y differencias de conceptos, con ejemplares escogidos de todo lo más bien dicho, assi facto, como hymanoby Baltasar Gracián y Morales
"El estilo ingenioso penetra los objetos, desentraña las dificultades y descubre las agudezas ocultas."
— Agudeza y arte de ingenio, en que se explican todos los modos y differencias de conceptos, con ejemplares escogidos de todo lo más bien dicho, assi facto, como hymanoby Baltasar Gracián y Morales
"Así como los ojos se recrean en la hermosura de los colores, el entendimiento se pasma en la sutileza de los conceptos."
— Agudeza y arte de ingenio, en que se explican todos los modos y differencias de conceptos, con ejemplares escogidos de todo lo más bien dicho, assi facto, como hymanoby Baltasar Gracián y Morales
"Thus with the sparkling of Goshen's glass, or with whatever other forbidden pleasure it was, my heart was fascinated, and I fell away."
— The Confessions of St. Augustineby Augustine of Hippo
"Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it find its rest in thee."
— The Confessions of St. Augustineby Augustine of Hippo
"What is time? If no one asks me, I know; if I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not."
— The Confessions of St. Augustineby Augustine of Hippo
"Late have I loved you, beauty so ancient and so new, late have I loved you! And behold, you were within me, and I was outside."
— The Confessions of St. Augustineby Augustine of Hippo
"Grant me chastity and continence, but not yet."
— The Confessions of St. Augustineby Augustine of Hippo
"By this name of Christ... this name, according to Thy mercy, O Lord, this name of my Saviour, Thy Son, had my tender heart, even with my mother's milk, drunk in deeply."
— The Confessions of St. Augustineby Augustine of Hippo
"Of bodies changed to various forms I sing: ye Gods, from whom these miracles did spring, inspire my enterprise, and lead along my continuous song, from nature's origin down to my very times."
"The golden age was first, which uncompelled, without a guard, their own true faith and virtue held. Punishment and fear were not; nor were severe words read on threatening brass."
"My mind is led to speak of forms changed into new bodies. O ye Gods, inspire the undertaking—since ye changed them too—and spin an uninterrupted thread from the world's very origin down to my own times."
"Time, the devourer of all things, and thou, envious age, together destroy all things that exist, and little by little consume them with a lingering death."