Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts. Voltaire on thoughts
When is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. Voltaire on wealth
Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object. Carl von Clausewitz on war
War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will. Carl von Clausewitz on war
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on change
...The eternal vital power builds them in the likeness of older worlds, placing them on the Imperishable Centres. How does he build them? He collects the fiery dust. He makes balls of fire, runs through them, and round them, infusing life there into, then sets them into motion; some one way, some the other way. They are cold, he makes them hot. They are dry, he makes them moist. They shine, he fans and cools them. Thus he acts from one twilight to the other, during Seven Eternities. Book of Dzyan on creation
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that. Justus von Liebig on observation
Discovery consists in seeing whateveryone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought. Albert von Nagyrapolt on change
Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart. Johann von Schiller on beauty
The only way to succeed is to make people hate you. That way, they remember you. von Sternberg on success
Success is relevant to coping with obstacles... But no problem is ever solved by those, who, when they fail, look for someone to blame instead of something to do. Fred Waggoner on success
Today the man who is the real risk-taker is anonymous and nonheroic. He is the one trying to make institutions work. John William Ward on risk
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.... Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. Andy Warhol on business
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. Andy Warhol on love
There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own. Charles Dudley Warner on marriage
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. Booker T. Washington on success
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. Booker T. Washington on success
To speak of "limits to growth" under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society. The moral pieties, that are voiced today by many well meaning environmentalists, are as naive as the moral pieties of multinationals are manipulative. Capitalism can no more be "persuaded" to limit growth than a human being can be "persuaded" to stop breathing. Attempts to "green" capitalism, to make it "ecological", are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth. Murray Bookchin on change
It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief. George Washington on avarice