I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security.
Everything considered work is less boring than amusing oneself.
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest the soldier the...
Even if it were proven that God didn't exist Religion would still be Saintly...
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish and...
France is not poetic she even feels in fact a congenital horror of poetry....
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an...
It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time be...
It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time get...
Always be a poet even in prose.
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists because nothing...
Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man...
Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
Music fathoms the sky.
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music and it...
The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of...
I love Wagner but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail...
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
For the merchant even honesty is a financial speculation.
The lover of life makes the whole world into his family just as the lover of...
Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little and...
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to...
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
Beauty is the sole ambition the exclusive goal of Taste.
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before...
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking...
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due not...
Whether you come from heaven or hell what does it matter O Beauty!
It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of...
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty a sense...
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish...
Modernity signifies the transitory the fugitive the contingent the half of...
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
Modernity is the transitory the fugitive the contingent which make up one...
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
Modernity is the transient the fleeting the contingent it is one half of...
