Jozef Pilsudski famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.

  • Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else.

  • I didn't think about anything past tomorrow because anything past tomorrow was just like cloud busting - it depended soley on the person looking at the clouds and it could rain any minute

  • You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.

  • Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values

  • You never realize how much you value something until you are faced with the prospect of losing it.

  • Anything you love more, fear more, serve more, or value more than God is your idol.

  • The value of a man resides in what he gives

  • The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future.

  • The more one gets to know of men, the more one values dogs.

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