Egon Friedell Quotes

The artist's view of the world and mankind is that which seeks as far as possible to lose itself in its object, illuminating it not from the outside by some light foreign to it, but from within, deriving light from its own core.

Egon Friedell

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• I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Australia

• The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Great
  • War
  • Day

• People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • People
  • Money
  • Government

• My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Dad

• The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Hate

• Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • People
  • Debt
  • Corrupt

• I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Good
  • Imagination
  • Gone

• Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Believe
  • Change
  • Best

• Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Love
  • Values
  • For Her

• Russia - having sat across the table from Vladimir Putin, it's pretty clear when you meet him that he has an almost limitless ambition for power. And he's been very good at acquiring it - political power, economic power, military power, territorial power.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Good
  • Power
  • Pretty

• visiting Jackson Pollock’s studio: You do not work from nature. This is no good, you will repeat yourself. You work by heart, not from nature. Pollock reacted: 'I am nature

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Good
  • Work
  • Heart

• Much to cast down, much to build, much to restore.

  

  T. S. Eliot

• It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Rather than worship Confucius and Kuan Kung, one should worship Darwin and Ibsen.

  

  Lu Xun

• Death,I need my little addiction to you.need that tiny voice who,even as I rise from the sea,all woman, all there,says kill me, kill me.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Death
  • Sea
  • Addiction

• But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.

  

  Philip Gibbs
  • Done
  • Fighting

• I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean.

  

  Alton Brown
  • People
  • Dirty

• I taught my executive team how to argue.

  

  Alan Mulally
  • Team

• My films have been successful, and therefore, the process has accommodated me. When the studio said 'no,' I did it anyhow. Now they don't say no to me.

  

  Doug Liman

• I hate to lose. It's a bad feeling, but, I mean, it kind of gets you resettled, gets you back right.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Bad
  • Feeling
  • Hate

• The spiritual master can instruct the disciple though many different formats.

  

  Bhaktisvarupa Damodar Swami
  • Disciple
  • Instruct
  • Spiritual Master

• We've got to realize what we're playing for. Now's the time to want it.

  

  Brad Wilkerson
  • Want
  • Playing
  • Realize

• The artist's view of the world and mankind is that which seeks as far as possible to lose itself in its object, illuminating it not from the outside by some light foreign to it, but from within, deriving light from its own core.

  

  Egon Friedell
  • Light
  • Lose
  • Mankind