Posted by: Silvana Stremiz
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Behavior)
With an evening gown and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can claim to be a civilized person.
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With an evening gown and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can claim to be a civilized person.
Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.
Instinct requires to be addressed by the method, but only the instinct helps us to find our own method by which we may address our own instinct.
Is much more prudent to think bad about everyone as long as naturally you find out that a person is good, dut nowadaysit requires a lot of investigation.
Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible. And suddenly you'll surprise yourselves by doing the impossible.
It is better to be hated for what one is than to be loved for what one isn't.
Study hard to be able to dominate the techniques that permit the domination of nature. Remember that the Revolution is what is important and that each of us, on our own, is worthless.
The victory over vanity is not modesty, or humility, but rather its excess.
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.