“This was the Great Romance. To love at any cost.”
Source: Black: The Birth of Evil
Source: Jayber Crow
“This was the Great Romance. To love at any cost.”
Source: Black: The Birth of Evil
Le bon historien n'est d'aucun temps ni d'aucun pays: quoiqu'il aime sa patrie, il ne la flatte jamais en rien.
Lettre sur les Occupations de l'Académie Française, sect. 8, cited from Œuvres de Fénelon (Paris: Lefèvre, 1835) vol. 3, p. 240; translation by Patrick Riley, from Hans Blom et al. (eds.) Monarchisms in the Age of Enlightenment (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007) p. 86.
“Philosophy … must not bargain away anything of the emphatic concept of truth.”
Source: Wozu noch Philosophie? [Why still philosophy?] (1963), p. 7
“Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.”
Tèma con Variazióne, st. 1
Rhyme? and Reason? (1883)
Source: Give Me Liberty! (1998), Ch. 16 : Security, the One-Way Ticket to Slavery, p. 174