"Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive, nothing can be understood."

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Mary Ritter Beard

#Philosophy Quotes #Helping Others Quotes #People Quotes

“Success is man's god.”
“One thought alone preoccupies the submerged mind of Empire: how not to end, how not to die, how to prolong its era. By day it pursues its enemies. It is cunning and ruthless, it sends its bloodhounds everywhere. By night it feeds on images of disaster: the sack of cities, the rape of populations, pyramids of bones, acres of desolation.”
“To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.”
“For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.”
“Dreams are reality waiting to happen”
“I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of portraiture because it deals exclusively with appearances. I've never believed people are what they look like and think it's impossible to really know what people are.”
“Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.”

Source : "Design for Power : The Struggle for the World". Book by Frederick Lewis Schuman, 1941.
“Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.”

Source : Elfriede Jelinek (2010). “The Piano Teacher”, p.83, Profile Books

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