All Quotes
2989 quotes in total
“Resolve to do right; leave the rest to fate.”
“The jungle is a world where death lurks at every step.”
“Nature is indifferent to human suffering.”
“In the jungle, the struggle for survival is the only law.”
“The wild does not forgive mistakes.”
“Man is always a stranger in the wilderness.”
“The writer must learn to kill his darlings.”
“There is no better school of literature than the jungle.”
“The short story is a arrow that must hit the target in a single flight.”
“In the tropics, death is always just around the corner.”
“Nature does not forgive those who forget her power.”
“For I consider that music is, by its very nature , essentially powerless to express anything at all, whether a feeling, an attitude of mind, a psychological mood, a phenomenon of nature, etc. Expression has never been an inherent property of music. That is by no means the purpose of its existence. If, as is nearly always the case, music appears to express something, this is only an illusion and not a reality . It is simply an additional attribute which, by tacit and inveterate agreement, we have lent it, thrust upon it, as a label, a convention”
“As for myself, I need music for hygienic purposes, for the health of my soul . Without music in its best sense there is chaos. For my part, music is a force which gives reason to things, a force which creates organization, which attunes things. Music probably attended the creation of the universe . The Musical Digest (1946) [1]”
“music, blamed for deserting”
“My music is best understood by children and animals . Igor Stravinsky. The Observer, Oct 8, 1961.”
“One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles. 1962, quoted in Andriessen and Schoenberger, The Apollonian Clockwork (1989). Oxford: Oxford University Press.”
“expressed in terms of”
“The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead. Igor Stravinsky. "Subject: Music", New York Times Magazine , 9/27/64.”
“The phenomenon of music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the co”
“Much of the music is a Merzbild , put together from whatever came to hand. I mean, for example...the Alberti”
“Have the courage to use your own reason”
“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and reverence, the more often and more steadily one reflects on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. Critique of Practical Reason (1788), Conclusion”
“Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play”
“Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785)”
“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. Critique of Pure Reason (1781)”
“Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law”
“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but of how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. Critique of Practical Reason (1788)”
“Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. What is Enlightenment? (1784)”
“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life”
“Rules and formulas, those mechanical aids to the use of reason, are the shackles of a permanent immaturity. What is Enlightenment? (1784)”