The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one is able to mediate these associations and connections, and in the dullness in discovering such transitions which the other shows.
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.
Ultimately, every great endeavor consists of many little steps.
The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.
Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.
But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.
The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.
He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
I encourage film students who are interested in cinematography to study sculpture, paintings, music, writing and other arts. Filmmaking consists of all the arts combined. Students are always asking me for advice, and I tell them that they have to be enthusiastic, because it's hard work. The only way to enjoy it is to be totally immersed. If you don't get involved on that level, it could be a very miserable job. I only have one regret about my career: I'm sorry that we are not making silent movies any more. That is the purest art form I can imagine.
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
Freedom is not synonymous with an easy life. . . . There are many difficult things about freedom: It does not give you safety, it creates moral dilemmas for you; it requires self-discipline; it imposes great responsibilities; but such is the nature of Man and in such consists his glory and salvation.
Clever policy consists in making nations believe they are free.
They call war an art, but it isn't. It largely consists in outwitting people, robbing widows and orphans, and inflicting suffering on the helpless for one's own ends - and that's not art: that's business.
The art of those who govern consists above all in the science of employing words.
It has often been argued that absolute scepticism is self-contradictory; but this is a mistake: and even if it were not so, it would be no argument against the absolute sceptic, inasmuch as he does not admit that no contradictory propositions are true. Indeed, it would be impossible to move such a man, for his scepticism consists in considering every argument and never deciding upon its validity; he would, therefore, act in this way in reference to the arguments brought against him.
Maturity consists in the discovery that there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more that there is something which cannot be understood.