Horace
View AuthorA spoken word cannot be taken back.
Victor Hugo
View AuthorHow! No criticism at all? No. Genius is an entity like nature and, like nature, it wants to be accepted purely and simply. A mountain is taken or left. There are people who criticize the Himalayas stone by stone! Everything in genius has its reason for being. It is because it is. Its name is the reverse of its light. Its fire is a consequence of its flame. Its precipice is the condition of its height.
Victor Hugo
View AuthorTo be discussed is to be perceived.
James Gibbons Huneker
View AuthorThe critic is a man who expects miracles.
Aldous Huxley
View AuthorThe words are there to explain the meaning of things, so that the one who listens understands that meaning.
Aldous Huxley
View AuthorWords can be like X-rays if used properly: they pass through everything. You read them and they pierce you. This is one of the things I try to teach my students: to write in a penetrating manner.
Eugene Ionesco
View AuthorOnly words matter. The rest is mere chatter.
Eugene Ionesco
View AuthorOh, words, how many crimes are committed in your name!
Isocrates
View AuthorA collection of beautiful maxims is a more valuable treasure than riches.
Karl Theodor Jaspers
View AuthorTo philosophize is and only is to learn how to die.
Karl Theodor Jaspers
View AuthorIn philosophy, the questions are more essential than the answers.
Thomas Jefferson
View AuthorIf I had to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I would not hesitate to prefer the latter.