Cubism is no different from any other school of painting. The same principles and the same elements are common to all. The fact that for a long time cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it, means nothing. I do not read English, and an English book is a blank to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist, and why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about?
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener.
All of reality is nothing more than the arrangement of particles. Our physical and mental life must be made out of particles because there is nothing else.
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
Those of us who live moral lives, lives we're not ashamed of, in fact rely a great deal more on the support of our friends than we readily acknowledge.
The hardships and sufferings to which our nation is to be subjected hereafter will be certainly great. We are keenly aware of the inmost feelings of all of you, our subjects. However, it is according to the dictates of time and fate that we have resolved to pave the way for a grand peace for all the generations to come by enduring the unendurable and suffering what is unsufferable.
Excerpt from the Jewel Voice Broadcast (translated). The broadcast announcing to the Japanese people the unconditional surrender of the Japanese military at the end of World War II.
Excerpt from the Jewel Voice Broadcast (translated). The broadcast announcing to the Japanese people the unconditional surrender of the Japanese military at the end of World War II.
Youth can not know how age thinks and feels, but old men are guilty, if they forget what it was to be young.
Albus Dumbledore : Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong.
There is a geographical element in all belief-saying what seem profound truths in India have a way of seeming enormous platitudes in England, and vice versa. Perhaps the fundamental difference is that beneath a tropical sun individuality seems less distinct and the loss of it less important.