Kazinczy Quotes & Sayings

Becoming enlightened doesn't mean everything works your way. — Frederick Lenz

Use thy duties, as Noah's dove did her wings, to carry thee to the ark of the Lord Jesus Christ, where only there is rest. — Isaac Ambrose

The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is a farcical fictional meditation on female beauty structured as a mash-up of an old episode of Friends, a fairy tale and a murder mystery. — Maureen Corrigan

Ever absent, ever near;
Still I see thee, still I hear;
Yet I cannot reach thee, dear! — Ferenc Kazinczy

Sometimes you only get one chance to rewrite the qualities of the character you played in a person's life story. Always take it. Never let the world read the wrong version of you. — Shannon L. Alder

Anger has its place, but it will not serve you here, the way of the warrior is the way of knowing. Of that knowledge requires you to use anger, then you use anger, but you cannot wrest forth knowledge by losing your temper. — Christopher Paolini

They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new. — Francis Bacon

I think you should live your life so that the maximum number of people will attend your funeral. — Scott Adams

How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash. — Chuck Palahniuk

This conceit went hand in glove with the investment bankers' belief that they could control their destiny, which, as we shall see, they couldn't. — Michael Lewis

The Christian ethic did not raise the worth of female life much above the Jewish: nor did the clinical ethic raise it much above the clerical. This is why most of those identified as witches by male inquisitors were women; and why most of those diagnosed as hysterics by male psychiatrists were also women. — Thomas Szasz