Jerry > Jerry's Quotes

“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far can one go.”
― T. S. Elliot

“The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.”
― Marcel Proust

“You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Journey to the End of the Night

“His nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible to straighten it out.”
― Marcel Proust

“The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.”
― Marcel Proust

“Our slightest desire, though unique as a chord, nevertheless includes the fundamental notes on which the whole of our life is built. And sometimes, if we were to eliminate one of them, even one that we do not hear, that we are not aware of, one that has no connexion with the object of our quest, we would nevertheless see our whole desire for that object disappear.”
― Marcel Proust

“For neither our greatest fears nor our greatest hopes are beyond the limits of our strength--we are able in the end both to dominate the first and to achieve the second.”
― Marcel Proust

“And so they grow richer and richer, and the more they think of making a fortune the less they think of virtue; for when riches and virtue are placed together in the scales of the balance, the one always rises as the other falls.”
― Socrates

“The ability to expend energy, especially in the form of other people's labour, in non-utilitarian ways, is the most basic and universally understood symbol of power.”
― Bruce Trigger

“Nothing on this earth is worth
buying at the price of human blood.”
― Jean Jacques Rousseau

“He who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“It is not what happens to me that makes me great, but what I do.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“God only is wise.”
― Socrates, Apología de Sócrates

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

“The march of mathematics is pursued on a broad and magnificent highway, which the latest posterity shall frequent without fear of danger or impediment.”
― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

“Self-pity [is] one of the most reprehensible sins of the human heart.”
― A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine

“God has given us not so much the colours of a picture as the colours of a palette.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.”
― G. K. Chesterton

“When conscience reigns, it allows no resting-place to lust, violence, and temerity.”
― Cicero, On the Republic / On the Laws

“For riches, fame, and power, without wisdom and a just method of regulating ourselves and commanding others, a government is full of discredit and insolent arrogance, nor is there any kind of government more deformed than that in which the wealthiest are regarded as the noblest.”
― Cicero, On the Republic / On the Laws

“There might be believed to exist one Universal Monarch in heaven [who] be accounted both king and father of all creatures.”
― Cicero, On the Republic / On the Laws