Berggruen Institute Quotes & Sayings

The best way to make a sort of peace, a fragile armistice to be sure, but precious all the same, with men, officers or not, is to let them bask and wallow in childish self-glorification. There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and formenost vain. The role of admiring doormat is about the only one that one man is glad to tolerate in another. With these soldiers I had no need to tax my imagination. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

So in many ways for me, having lived through what I've lived through, and endured what I've endured, I've got more confidence that I can do the next bit - and there's something sustaining about that. — Julia Gillard

The library is testimony to truth and to error, — Umberto Eco

Good bones of Bonesville," Sherlock Bones said. "If you know what you fear, you'll fear it less. — Jean-Luc Fromental

Welcome to the Carnival of Life, where dreams are a reality and reality is dreams gone mad. — L. Scott Ward