Quotes
Quotes about Nation
I know, indeed, the evil of that I purpose; but my inclination gets the better of my judgment.
I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.
It was a custom with Apelles, to which he most tenaciously adhered, never to let any day pass, however busy he might be, without exercising himself by tracing some outline or other,--a practice which has now passed into a proverb. It was also a practice with him, when he had completed a work, to exhibit it to the view of the passers-by in his studio, while he himself, concealed behind the picture, would listen to the criticisms.... Under these circumstances, they say that he was censured by a shoemaker for having represented the shoes with one latchet too few. The next day, the shoemaker, quite proud at seeing the former error corrected, thanks to his advice, began to criticise the leg; upon which Apelles, full of indignation, popped his head out and reminded him that a shoemaker should give no opinion beyond the shoes, --a piece of advice which has equally passed into a proverbial saying.
Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.
They say that the first inclination which an animal has is to protect itself.
Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes),
Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes;
Who loving novels, full of affectation,
Receive the manners of each other nation.
Righteousness exalteth a nation.
They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
The nations are as a drop of a bucket.
A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation.
Abomination of desolation.
All nations and kindreds and tongues.
Nation of shopkeepers.
A language may be termed a dialect that waves a national flag
Human beings are defined by freedom of choice. Once you have them doing what theyre told is good just because theyre going to get a lump of sugar instead of a kick up the ahss (?!) then ethnics no longer exists. The state could tell them it was good to go off and mug and rape and kill some other nation.
The fascination of the reprehensible is my true driving force
Rejuvenation? Never. Not a hope.
Music is considered an international language, yet it tends to gross insularity.
Poetry of a surrealistic kind can, as a dream can, free the imagination from the trammels of daily cause and effect
The best-selling formula for our times insists on the combination of frank sex and technical information. The reader enjoys the sex, and, if he feels any shame in this, it can dissolve in a sense of virtue that he is learning how an airport is run, or a bank, or the White House, or a nuclear installation.
Catholicism is, in a paradox, a bigger thing than the faith. It is a kind of nationality one is stuck with forever. Or, rather, a supranationality that makes one despise small patriotisms
If we take away plot, character, dialogue, even characters, we shall be left with something that is common to the most traditional and avant-garde novelist - a concern with interpreting, through the imagination, the flux of ordinary life; an attempt to understand, though not with the cold deliberation of the scientist, the nature of the external world and the mind that surveys it
Imagination is your true Apollo
Because you do not believe it does not mean it is not all true ... eternal life, eternal damnation - these are real, whether you believe or not
Is not the imagination part of the soul?
