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The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.
Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.
I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.
It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.
When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.
Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.
The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.
We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.
When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.
Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.
Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.
For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.
You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.
The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject
He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt
It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it
That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.
When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it means equality of income.
Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.
There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.
He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.
Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.
I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.
As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.
Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.
The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and comes with an explosion.
It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.
My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it
The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.
People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them