Carl Schmitt Quotes

The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition.

Carl Schmitt

Quotes to Explore

Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.

Edmund Waller
- High
- Muse
- Conqueror
My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

Sam Donaldson
- School
- She
- Mother
All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.

Vincent D'Onofrio
- Work
- Trying
- Stop
There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.

Rahm Emanuel
- You
- Run
- Safe
I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.

Jack Antonoff Fun.
One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.

Daniel Everett
- People
- Trying
- Happy