#elf

All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#itself #mischief #punishment

He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#beacon #claim #direct #explicit #guide

Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored. ↗

— John Berger

#chain #dogs #must #never #sausages

I don't want to lose myself in football and that's what a coach has to do to be successful. ↗

— Dennis Bergkamp

#football #i #lose #myself #successful

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#itself #past #preserved #reality

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#creating #endlessly #exist #go #mature

What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty? ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#art #beauty #carry #does #enamoured

I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?' ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#behaving #doing #dramas #end #i

A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#day #every #every day #gold #gold standard

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#god #itself #more #pray #prayer