Literature and Poetry – Juan Ramón Jiménez
“Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.”
Juan Ramón Jiménez
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Courage for Truth After 9/11 – Noam Chomsky on the Wall Street Journal
“Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the ‘Wall Street Journal.'”
Noam Chomsky
Nietzsche’s Truth about Beauty and Ugliness
“Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Humorous Insight About Marriage by H. L. Mencken
“A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.”
H. L. Mencken
Juan Ramón Jiménez Quote on Creativity
“If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.”
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Noam Chomsky on Iran 1979
“In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders.”
Noam Chomsky
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
H. L. Mencken on the Illusion of Eternal Friendship
“One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.”
H. L. Mencken
Quote by H. L. Mencken on Sports and Common Sense
“I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.”
H. L. Mencken
Juan Ramón Jiménez Quote on Longing and Possession
“Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.”
Juan Ramón Jiménez