"Once he saw the officials of a temple leading away some one who had stolen a bowl belonging to the treasurers, and said, "The great thieves are leading away the little thief."

-- Diogenes

#Thieves Quotes #Littles Quotes #Saws Quotes

“That world beyond is a world of sanctity and radiance; therefore, it is necessary that in this world he should acquire these divine attributes. In that world there is need of spirituality, faith, assurance, the knowledge and love of God. These he must attain in this world so that after his ascension from the earthly to the heavenly Kingdom he shall find all that is needful in that eternal life ready for him.”
“I noticed some time ago that neither of the candidates are quoting the founders. If they are, they're doing it so rarely that I haven't noticed, or enough to be negligible. Certainly, neither is invoking the image of [George] Washington at Valley Forge or the Shining City Upon a Hill. In addition to this being true for John McCain and Barack Obama, it was true for Hillary Clinton as well.”
“Custom is often only the antiquity of error.”
“It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings in order to then integrate this into a coherent painterly form.”

Source : "Kirchner and the Berlin street" edited by Deborah Wye, Moma, New York, (p. 36), 2008.
“I'm lost in a transition. The old is dead, and I don't know what the new is. The only way to find the new is to start different things and see if there's something that can come out of experimentation. It's somewhat unsettling, but it's a hopeful thing in a way. I've been here before, lots of times.”
“Growing up I had lots of role models. Looking back, my parents were my first role models.”

Source : Source: www.sundaytimes.lk
“History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?”
“One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle.”

Source : Attributed to Jacques Chirac speaking to Silvio Berlusconi over the invasion of Iraq in 2003, 20 o'clock news, TF1, March 11, 2007.

You may also like:

Alexander the Great
Military Commander
Antisthenes
Philosopher
Aristotle
Philosopher
Democritus
Philosopher
Epicurus
Philosopher
Heraclitus
Philosopher
Plato
Philosopher
Socrates
Philosopher
Zeno of Citium