Chastellux Quotes & Sayings

No, a true seeker could not accept any teachings, not if he sincerely wished to find something. But he who had found, could give his approval to every path, to every goal; nothing separated him from all the other thousands who lived in eternity, who breathed the Divine. — Hermann Hesse

All the women in my family were superb cooks. — Randy Wayne White

You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you. — Whitney Houston

Kids are intimidated by the way science and technology is presented. It's made, frankly, quite boring and it becomes part of a curriculum that chases particularly women and minorities away. — Dean Kamen

All birds are perhaps a little wrong, because an absolute once-and-for-all formula for a bird has never been found, just as all novels are bad because the correct formula for a novel has never been found. — Halldor Laxness

I think he [Heidegger] sets the question up in a useful way and, despite appearances, he's not 'against' technology. He just wants us to have a questioning and thoughtful relation to it. This must be relevant to any approach. — George Pattison

My first strike was marrying a guy without a college degree. My second and third were getting pregnant. I suppose that when I didn't go on to become the next Gloria Allred, she was justified in counting me a failure. And I suppose that until now, I was justified in thinking that I wasn't one. — Jodi Picoult

The supreme principle of socialism is that man takes precedence over things, life over property, and hence, work over capital; that power follows creation, and not possession; that man must not be governed by circumstances, but circumstances must be governed by man. — Erich Fromm

I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining. — Imelda May

It was hard to say if the statement was some sort of suicidal ideation, but one could hope. — Paul Beatty

What people notice about [when they are on] LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is. — Terence McKenna

One always believes one's own town to be more stupid than any other. — George Eliot

Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves. — Shirley Maclaine

Mrs. Carter raised her chin. "The essence of a lady comes from within," she said in a gentle but firm tone. "A lady can wear rags, but as long as she holds her head up and carries herself proudly, people will see her, not her clothing. — Debra Holland

When leaders betray their people and the people don't overthrow them, it's not just the leaders who should be blamed. — Sergei Lukyanenko