"This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire."

-- Voltaire

#History Quotes #Empires Quotes #Holy Quotes

“Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.”
“Express your ideas with the world”
“The doctor who willingly accepts destroying life will have no grounds on which to object if the state should compel that doctor to destroy life,”
“Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present.”
“A friend in power is a friend lost.”

Source : The Education of Henry Adams ch. 7 (1907)
“Genius has its fatality. Must we not see in its works a manifestation of the will of Providence?”

Source : Arsène Houssaye (1852). “Philosophers and Actresses”, p.107
“When I'm nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.”
“Everything is too far away in the past, or mysteriously too close.”

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