Great Throughts Treasury

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Haile Selassie

If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.

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Hannah Arendt

In this world which we enter, appearing from a nowhere, and from which we disappear into a nowhere, Being and Appearing coincide.

Time |

Hannah Arendt

Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is na‹ve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.

Hans Küng

I am sure that this will be seen in the Catholic world, and even more than that, as a hopeful sign because it shows that he [Benedict] has more positive intentions than maybe what was seen at the beginning.

Time |

Hannah Arendt

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Time |

Hans Hoffman

The product of movement and counter-movement is tension. When tension ? working strength ? is expressed, it endows the work of art with the living effect of coordinated, though opposing, forces.

Time |

Hannah Arendt

What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

History | Price | Time |

Italian Proverbs

The best defense is a good offence.

Time | Learn |

Italian Proverbs

The devil turns away from a closed door.

Italian Proverbs

The eye of the master fattens the horse.

Experience | Life | Life | Principles | Psychology | Time | Youth | Youth |

Italian Proverbs

She who is born a beauty is born betrothed.

Italian Proverbs

No man is indispensable.

Computer | Wrong |

Italian Proverbs

The eagle does not wage war against frogs.

Important |

Italian Proverbs

Needs must when the devil drives.

Harmony | Object | Time |

Italian Proverbs

No one gets rich quickly if he is honest.

Money | Research | Time |

Italian Proverbs

So good that he is good for nothing.

Effort | Good | Internet | People | Power | Promise | Time |

Italian Proverbs

The devil is bad because he is old.

Ability | Age | Art | Control | Culture | Humor | Memory | Need | Time | Work | World | Art |

Italian Proverbs

There is no helping him who will not be advised.

Enough | History | Justice | Time | Will |