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I mistrust all systemizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols---"Maxims and Arrows"
THE DISAPPOINTED MAN SPEAKS.--I sought great human beings, I never found anything but the APES of their ideal.Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols-- "Maxims and Arrows"
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer to everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything... it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the noisy foolishness of human certainties.Milan Kundera, Interview on The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention.Abraham Lincoln
It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag.Zell Miller
Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside.Jose Raul Bernardo, The Secret of the Bulls (Simon & Schuster, 1996
Souls woven together by the gods can never be unraveled.Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)
When honor and truth are at odds, let truth prevail.Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)
When you tell the truth, people listen.Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)
Truth is so difficult to find that, when one hears it, it shines through.Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998) One of the Best Novels of 1998 (LA Times)