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All one’s inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Books are made not like children but like pyramids and they’re just as useless! And they stay in the desert! Jackals piss at their foot and the bourgeois climb up on them.
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
What an elder sees sitting; the young can’t see standing.
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
만약 충분히 긴 시간을 두고 본다면 무엇이든지 흥미로워 진다.
많이 읽어라. 하지만 많은 책을 뜻하는것은 아니다
모든 거짓말들 중에 예술이 가장 진실으로부터 거리가 멀다.
물오리는 날적부터 헤엄을 치듯이 어린이들은 나면서부터 착한일을 할 수 있는 천성을 지니고 있다. 어린이들이 하는일에 일일이 간섭하는 것은 물오리의 헤엄을 금하는거나 다름없다. 어린이들을 가르치려면 그 천성을 옆에서 도와 주는 것이 중요하다.
여성은 남성을 지배하므로 먼저 그 여성을 완전한 것으로 만들기 위해 노력하라. 여성이 광명을 가지면 가질스록 남성은 밝은 빛을 받게 되는 셈이다. 여성의 교양은 오로지 남성의 지혜에 달려있다.
진실은 없다. 지각만이 있을뿐이다.
풍부함이 풍미보다 낫다.
존 스튜어트 밀
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.
All desirable things… are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.
All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
Hegel과의 친분은 영리한 사람을 악화 시킨다.
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one – if he had the power – would be justified in silencing mankind.
Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.
The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sov
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.
개성을 파괴하는 자는 독재자이다.
관료제도에 영향을 주는 병 그리고 그들을 파괴 시키는 것은 기계적인 일이다.
난 만족함으로 행복을 찾는 방법 보다, 나의 욕구를 줄임으로써 나의 행복을 찾는 방법을 배우고 있다.
난 어떤 단체가 다른 단체에게 억지로 문화적인 생활을 하라고 하는 것에 대해 문제를 삼지 않는다.
남자들은 밥벌이를 하는것 많큼이나, 감옥에 갈 수도 있다.
독재정치 풍습은 사람의 발달에 방해를 한다.
독창성이야 말고 독창성이지 않은 사람들이 필요성을 느끼지 못하는 요소중 하나이다.
만약 지금까지 만들어진 기계들이 사람의 노고를 덜어 주었다면 의심적인 일일 것이다.
만족과 자유는 고동으로 부터 온다, 라는 말은 끝으로 갈수록 매력있는 말이다.
문제가 일어 났을때 자신이 유리한 쪽만 생각 하는 사람은 알고 있는것이 별로 없다.
믿음을 가진 한 사람은 나머지 99명의 관심을 가진 사람과 맞먹는다.
보수적인 사람이 모두 바보 인것이 아니라, 바보들이 보수적인 것 이다.
보수적인 사람이 바보 인것은 아니다, 하지만 멍청한 사람들은 보수적이다.
삶엔 편안하고 보호받으며 산 사람들은 느끼지 못하고, 힘들게 싸우고 위험을 감수한 사람만이 느낄 수 있는 맛이 있다.
수많은 남자중 중요한 몆 남자를 골라 내는 것은, 그들이 무능력 할때 믿음을 가지고 일에 임하는 것이다.
쉽게 자각 할수 없는 분야에서, 나온 평판좋은 의견들은, 사실인 것이 많다, 하지만 가끔 혹은 절대로 모든것이 사실이진 않다.
어떤 이름으로든 간에, 개성을 파괴하는 자는 독재자이다.
존재 하는 모든것들의 공통된 좋은점은 신선한 창조력 이다.
한 나라의 가치는 결국 그 나라를 구성하고 있는 개인들의 가치이다.
폴 고갱
I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.
In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one’s will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to
Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art’s audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
나는 보기 위해 눈을 감는다.
당신을 병들게 만드는 것은 문명이다.
양보란 모든사람들이 자기것이 가장큰 케잌조각이라고 생각하도록 분배해주는 예술이다.
예술은 철학을 요구한다, 철학이 예술을 요구하듯이. 그렇지않으면 무엇이 미가 될것인가?
예술은 표절이나 혁명 중 하나이다.
우리 자신에게서 경험하지 않는 이상 우리는 절대 우둔함이란것을 알지 못한다.
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