버지니아 울프
잘 먹지 않는다면 생각도 사랑도 잠도 잘 잘수 없어요.
우리가 사나운 염소의 수염을 뽑듯이, 절벽에 매달려 떨면서, 모험적으로 살지 않는다면, 우리는 결코 의기소침할 일을 없을 것이다. 그러나 그때, 인생은 이미 퇴색하고, 숙명적이고, 늙어버렸을 것이다.
왜 여성들은… 남성들이 여성들에게 가지는 흥미보다 훨씬 큰 흥미를 남성들에게 느낄까요?
여성으로써 나는 국적이 없다. 여성으로써 모든 나라가 나의 세상이다.
You send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.
Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradles. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.
Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?
Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.
When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.
Tom’s great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face – as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.
This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.
There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
The middlebrow is the man, or woman, of middlebred intelligence who ambles and saunters now on this side of the hedge, now on that, in pursuit of no single object, neither art itself nor life itself, but both mixed indistinguishably, and rather nastily, wi
The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.
The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
The first duty of a lecturer – to hand you after an hour’s discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the wr
Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.
Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the heath of their fame as men are, and speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats – and one always secretes too much jelly.
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
Now, aged 50, I’m just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.
Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
Never did I read such tosh. As for the first two chapters we will let them pass, but the 3rd 4th 5th 6th – merely the scratching of pimples on the body of the bookboy at Claridges.
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery – always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?
Most of a modest woman’s life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.
Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people.
Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything… it calls for confidence in oneself… And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.
It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.
Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.
Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‘our’ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not shar
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again – as I always am when I write.
I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.
I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
For love… has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together t
Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is the very opposite of what it is ab
But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? – the entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world – a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restles
Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
At 46 one must be a misre; only have time for essentials.
Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.
Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it’s there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
[Queen Victoria] knew her own mind. But the mind radically commonplace, only its inherited force, and cumulative sense of power, making it remarkable.
드와이트 D. 아이젠하워
현명한 사람도, 용감한 사람도 역사의 철길에 누워 미래의 열차가 지나가기를 기다리지 못한다.
하사관이 곧 군대이다.
평화와 정의는 같은 동전의 다른 두 면이다.
책을 태우는 사람과 함께하지 말라. 책이 존재했다는 증거를 감춘다고 해서 생각을 감출 수 있을거라고 생각하지 말라.
지도력은 다른 사람들이 원해서 자신이 원하는 일을 하게 하는 기술이다.
줄을 당기면 당신이 가기 원하는 어디든지 따라 갈 것이다. 줄을 밀면 아무데도 가지 않을 것이다.
존재의 증거를 감춘다고 해서 생각을 감출 수 있을거라고 생각하지 말라
제복을 입으면 받아들이게 되는 어떤 억압 같은것이 있다.
정치는 직업이다. 진지하고 복잡하며, 진실된 의미에서는 고상한 직업이다.
정치는 자유로운 사람의 권리와 특권을 지키며 좋고 결실이 많은 것을 국가적 유산에 보존하려는 모든 시민들의 파트타임 직업이여야 한다.
정도보다 특권에 가치를 두는 사람은 곧 둘 다 잃는다.
절대 우리가 정직한 이의와 불충실한 파멸을 혼동하지 말게 하소서.
전투에서 희생된 피를 대신할 만한 영광은 없다.
전투를 준비하는 데 있어 나는 항상 계획은 쓸모없으나 계획을 짜는 것은 필수라는 점을 발견했다.
전쟁은 아무것도 안정시키지 않는다
전시체제에서 가장 끔찍한 일은 싸움터에 있을 때 소대를 이끄는 소위가 되는 것이다.
자유로운 사람들의 역사는 정말 절대 기회가 아닌 선택에 의해 쓰여진다. 그들의 선택에 의해!
인간의 정신은 육체적 힘보다 더욱 중요하며 나라의 정신적 내구성은 부 보다 중요하다.
이런 전쟁은 할 수 없다. 길에 널린 시체를 모을 충분한 불도저가 없다.
우리의 행복은 간단했다. 거기에는 생존도 포함되어 있었다.
우리의 이 세계는… 반드시 끔찍한 두려움과 증오의 공동체가 되는 것을 피해야 하며, 대신 자랑스런 상호신용과 존중의 연합이 되어야 한다.
우리는 평화가 자유의 기후라는 것을 알고 평화를 추구한다.
우리는 완전한 안전을 찾는 공허한 노력에 우리 자신을 파산시킬 것이다.
우리는 설령 평화를 위해 싸워야 할 지라도 반드시 평화를 가질 것이다.
우리는 “평화와 우정” 이라는 어구를 많이 들어왔다. 미국의 포부를 표현하는 이 어구는 완전하지 않다. 우리는 대신 “자유안의 평화와 우정” 이라고 이야기 해야한다. 내 생각엔 이것이 미국이 세계에 전하는 진정한 메세지 같다.
오직 자유에 대한 개인적 신념만이 우리를 자유롭게 한다.
오직 미국인만이 미국을 손상할수 있다
오직 강자만이 협동할 수 있다. 약자는 오직 부탁밖에 할 수 없다.
역사는 자유의 보호를 약자나 겁쟁이에게 오래 위임하지 않는다.
어떤사람들은 맥주와 핫도그가 필요한 때에 샴페인과 캐비어를 원했다.
아, 아름다운 이름, 전 대통령이여.
아 그렇다. 나는 12년동안 그의 밑에서 연출법을 배웠다.
세계는 움직이며 전에 괜찮았던 아이디어들이 항상 좋은 것은 아니다.
사람은 때려서 이끄는 것이 아니다. 그것은 폭행이지 지도력이 아니다.
비관주의는 어떤 싸움이라도 단 한번도 이겨보지 못했다.
백화점 특매장의 가격으로는 승리는 없다.
발목은 거의 항상 단정하고 보기 좋지만 무릎은 거의 항상 그렇지 않다.
미국정부에는 몇가지 잘못된 점이 있다. 그중 한가지는 모두가 집에서 너무 멀리 떨어져 있다는 것이다.
미국에는 아무것도 잘못된 것이 없어서 믿음, 자유를 사랑하는 마음, 지식, 시민들의 힘이 못 고치는 것은 없다.
문제가 해결되지 않는다면 확대 시켜라
목적은 분명하다. 안전을 동반한 지불능력이다. 국가는 두가지 모두에 자격이 있다.
많은 것들이 역사상에 기록되어 있는 것과 전혀 다르다.
만약 절대적 안전을 원한다면 감옥으로 가라. 그곳에서는 먹여주고, 입혀주고, 치료도 해준다. 오직 하나 부족한게 있다면…자유이다.
만약 국제연합이 국제 분쟁을 무력을 써서 잠재울 수 있다고 인정한다면 우리는 조직의 기초와 세계질서를 확립하고자 하는 우리의 희망을 파괴했을 것이다.
동기부여는 사람들이 원해서 자신이 원하는 것을 하게 하는 기술이다.
대통령 체제와는 다르게 문제들은 드물게 종료 날짜가 있다.
누구든지 대통령이 되길 원하는 사람은 병적인 자부심을 가지거나 미친 사람이다.
누가 무기를 만드는가나 누가 방아쇠를 당기느냐 말다툼 하는 것 보다 목표를 맞출 수 있는 것이 훨씬 더 중요하다.
내가 신호를 줄 때까지 쓸데없이 목숨을 위태롭게 하지 말라.
내 이름과 대통령직을 같은 숨에 이야기 하는 것은 완전히 모순이라고 생각한다.
나의 이 책상 앞에서 죽음을 맞을수는 있으나 퇴임은 하지 못한다.
나는 차라리 그에게 계속 가라고 설득하겠다. 설득하기만 하면 들을 것이기 때문이다. 만약 그를 협박한다면 그는 두려운 만큼 있다가 사라질 것이다.
나는 자신의 처형대가 만들어 지는 것을 보는 감옥의 죄수처럼 느껴진다.
나는 이 관중들 앞에서 포커하는 사람이 되려고 하지 않는다.
나는 미국 시민들을 법정의 명령에 따르게 하기 위해 어디에서든지 군대의 필요나 사용에 대해 유감스럽게 생각한다.
나는 모든 주요 문제를 시험하는 하나의 척도를 가지고 있다. 그 척도는 “이것이 미국을 위해 좋은가?”이다.
나는 모든 주요 문제를 시험하는 단 하나의 척도를 가지고 있다. 그 척도는 “이것이 미국을 위해 좋은가?”이다.
나는 내가 정말 늙은 만큼 늙었다고 느끼는 날을 위해서 흔들의자를 남겨두고 있다.
나는 그 여행을 해야겠다. 나는 한국으로 갈 것이다.
그럼 우리의 진짜 문제는 오늘의 힘이 아니다. 오히려 내일의 힘을 보장하기 위한 오늘의 행동의 필수불가결 함이다.
계획은 아무것도 아니다. 계획을 세우는 과정이 전부이다.
걱정’이란 단어는 내가 내 자신에게 쓰지 못하게 하는 단어이다.
I’ve always loved my wife, my children, and my grandchildren, and I’ve always loved my country. I want to go. God, take me.
You will enter the continent of Europe and, in conjunction with the other United Nations, undertake operations aimed at the heart of Germany and the destruction of her armed forces.
When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?
We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.
The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial meas
The United States pledges its determination to help solve the fearful atomic dilemma-to devote its entire heart and mind to finding the way by which the miraculous inventiveness of man shall not be dedicated to his death but consecrated to his life.
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.
The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.
That was not the biggest battle that ever was, but for me it always typified one thing – the dash, the ingenuity, the readiness at the first opportunity that characterizes the American soldier.
Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I’m not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene.
Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.
Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.
No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.
In the final choice a soldier’s pack is not so heavy as a prisoner’s chains.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
In most communities it is illegal to cry “fire” in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.
How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
From this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty.
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.
Controlled, universal disarmament is the imperative of our time. The demand for it by the hundreds of millions whose chief concern is the long future of themselves and their children will, I hope, become so universal and so insistent that no man, no govern
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.