There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
Sometimes you have to sacrifice your beard in order to save your head.
The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design. To the naive mind that can conceive of order only as the product of deliberate arrangement, it may seem absurd that in complex...
I have experienced on my body and on my soul that I needed sin very much, I needed lust, the desire for possessions, vanity, and needed the most shameful despair, in order to learn how to give up all resistance, in order to learn how to love the worl...
Julius Johnson, the big manufacturer. He is being hounded by a mad woman who is trying to blow up his factories. She wants to destroy order to make people aware of chaos, and in that way to hasten the rebirth [...] The poor soul has the wrong end of ...
Fantasy imposes order on the universe. Or, at least, it superimposes order on the universe. And it is a human order. Reality tells us that we exist for a brief, beleaguered span in a cold infinity; fantasy tells us that the figures in the foreground ...
Will you destroy something in order to make it beautiful? Will you avoid something in order to fall in love with it? Will you sacrifice something just so that you get it? Will you maintain distance from someone in order to get him close? We often mak...
You must be fully prepared to lose a great deal in order to make a great deal.
The fool castrates himself in order that he could accuse his pregnant wife of adultery.
I have my own theory: ignorance is bliss. The less you know, the more confident you can be in tackling things.
Your dreams will come true, but do not be overly demanding. Be logical – there are not enough mansions for everyone in the world, are there?
To will is to put your emotion into your desire. Simply wanting is not desire, it is merely an undirected thought with no purpose but to pass the time.
The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten.
The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.
But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.
