"The French people recognizes the Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul. The first day of every month is to be dedicated to the eternal."

-- Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

#People Quotes #Soul Quotes #Months Quotes

“The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.”
“The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his withdrawal, creative. He can find the quality of happiness in the strain and travail only of achievement and growth. And he is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment which his life-urges demand when his is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.”
“Increasingly independent black economic, cultural and political power gave Blacks more freedom to do what came natural to them. Divorced from White influence and culture, they reverted quickly to their genotype - increasingly typical of black societies around the world. Males exhibited exaggerated sexual aggression and promiscuity that led to the dissolution of the Black nuclear family in America. Females reverted to the age-old African model of maternal provisioning of children.”
“Wanting to work is a luxury; having to work is not.”
“The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.”
“For me, the sketchbooks are more like a secret and wholly spontaneous jeu d'esprit and some of them I like as much as anything I have ever done. They are invariably without premeditation. I mean not only that I have no plan when I make them, I also have no plan to make them.”
“Instead of thinking about talent as something that you acquire, talent should be thought of as something that you develop.”

Source : "Secrets of their success". Interview with Jennifer Reingold, archive.fortune.com. November 19, 2008.
“Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement.”

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