You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.
It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.
In my mind and in my heart, I feel okay. I cannot complain that I haven't lived long enough, but I'd like to live longer.
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.
Symbology and ritual, at best, can only mimic the Truth ... and cannot, and never has had, any mastery over the manifestations of Divinity.
No one can tell you what you can and cannot put in your book. So be brave and just write!
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.
There are always lessons that can be learned from another manufacturer. You can learn from their successes and from their mistakes also. But you cannot replicate; you can only learn.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.
Feelings come and go, and when they come a good use can be made of them, but they cannot be our regular spiritual diet.
Even if it is a vice to read science fiction, those who cannot understand the very temptation to that vice will not be likely to tell us anything of value about it.
Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!
When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue.
What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow. But what you know today cannot affect what you did yesterday.
You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.
