... gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or a hill side; t...wo people, of no matter what sex or age, dining in a good restaurant; six people, of no matter what sex or age, dining in a good home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it does...n't go to my head.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear,... they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lanza del Vasto noted a deep connection between play and war, even before the games theory and nuclear war strategy became practic...ally identified. In our society, everything, in fact, is a game. But if everything is a game, then everything leads to war. Play is aimless and yet multiplies obstacles so that the "aim," which in fact does not exist, cannot be attained by the opponent. For instance, getting a ball in a hole. War is caused by similar aimless aims. Not by hunger, not by real need. War is a game of the powerful, or of whole collectivities devoted to self-assertion. It is "the great public vice that consists in playing with the lives of men." War plays with life and death, and does so magnificently. Everybody becomes involved. Everybody has to live or die--so that other side may not get a ball in a hole.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If mothers are told to do this or that or the other,... they lose touch with their own ability to act.... Only too easily they fee...l incompetent. If they must look up everything in a book, they are always too late even when they do the right things, because the right things have to be done immediately. It is only possible to act at exactly the right point when the action is intuitive or by instinct, as we say. The mind can be brought to bear on the problem afterwards.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are men from whom nature or some peculiar destiny has removed the cover beneath which we hide our own madness. They are like... thin-skinned insects whose visible play of muscles seem to make them deformed, though in fact, everything soon turns to its normal shape again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to for...get and to forget is to die. Everything is so much involved in and is so much a process of its opposite that, as it is almost fair to call death a process of life and life a process of death, so it is to call memory a process of forgetting and forgetting a process of remembering. There is never either absolute memory or absolute forgetfulness, absolute life or absolute death. So with light and darkness, heat and cold, you never get either all the light or all the heat out of anything. So with God and the devil; so with everything. Everything is like a door swinging backwards and forwards. Everything has a little of that from which it is most remote and to which it is most opposed and these antitheses serve to explain one another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Minerva House ... was "a finishing establishment for young ladies," where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen ...inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's very expressive of myself. I just lump everything in a great heap which I have labeled "the past," and, having thus emptied t...his deep reservoir that was once myself, I am ready to continue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »