Faultless honesty is a sine qua non of business life. Not alone the honesty according to the moral code and the Bible. When I spea...k of honesty I refer to the small, hidden, evasive meannesses of our natures. I speak of the honesty of ourselves to ourselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotatio...n.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. I...t has potency which the world does not yet know.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
(Non! Rien de rien.... Non, je ne regrette rien! Ni le bien qu'on m'a fait, Ni le mal. Tout ça m'est bien égal!) No, I regret no...thing.... Neither the good nor the bad, It's all the same for me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Any adequate analysis or (if I may use the term) rational reconstruction of the method of science must comprise the statement that... the scientist qua scientist accepts or rejects hypotheses; and further that an analysis of that statement would reveal it to entail that the scientist qua scientist makes value judgments.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No wealth can buy the requisite leisure, freedom, and independence which are the capital in this profession. It comes only by the ...grace of God. It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker. You must be born into the family of the Walkers. Ambulator nascitur, non fit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging ...toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »