Life and Existence
Matthew Arnold
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Aristóteles
The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul’s faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue … Moreover this activity must occupy a complete lifetime; for one swallow does not make spring, nor does one fine day; and similarly one day or a brief period of happiness does not make a man supremely blessed and happy.
Aristóteles
Every art and every investigation, and likewise every practical pursuit or undertaking, seems to aim at some good: hence it has been well said that the Good is That at which all things aim.
Ludovico Ariosto
Natura il fece, e poi roppe la stampa. Nature made him, and then broke the mould.
Hannah Arendt
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
Hans Christian Andersen
It doesn’t matter about being born in a duckyard, as long as you’re hatched from a swan’s egg!
Kingsley Amis
His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.
Kingsley Amis
His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.
Woody Allen
I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work … I want to achieve it through not dying.
Woody Allen
I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work … I want to achieve it through not dying.
Woody Allen
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
