Settembrini And Naphta Quotes & Sayings

Acquire wisdom from the story of those who have already passed. — Uthman Ibn Affan

No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can be anything but an oligarchy managed in the interest of the few. And the enlightenment must proceed in ways which force the administrative specialists to take account of the needs. The world has suffered more from leaders and authorities than from the masses. The essential need ... is the improvement of the methods and conditions of debate, discussion and persuasion. That is the problem of the public. — John Dewey

Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though few of us will win Olympic gold medals or slay dragons, disease can be the spark or gift that allows many of us to live out our personal myths and become heroes. — Bernie S. Siegel

I love the alchemy of cooking, the theatre of it. It's creating something. — Anthony Warlow

It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true. — Phyllis Bottome

Worldly things (laukik) are perceived through the senses (indriya-gamya). That, which is beyond the world (alaukik), is perceived [through the knowledge which is] beyond the senses (atindriya-gamya). — Dada Bhagwan

And thoughts of no other man but you could possibly get through the picket lines to enter into my mind. — Ani DiFranco

Don't force your gifts: if you are a rascal, live like one; if you are half honest, be half honest; if you are completely honest, live absolutely honestly. — Pierre Ceresole

Part of me knows this is the coolest thing that's ever happened to me, but it's also terrifying. If this is all real, and the magic didn't end at midnight like in the fairy tales, then I'm completely flying blind. — Rachel Harris

Yes, like watching someone flog a dead horse into obedience, Settembrini scoffed; to which Naphta replied that since for our sin God had visited our bodies with the gruesome ignominy of rot and decay, there was no indignity in the same body's receiving an occasional beating - which immediately brought them to the topic of cremation. — Thomas Mann

He holds his guitar like a Tommy gun. — Elvis Presley