#ill

Wisdom comes by disillusionment. ↗

— George Santayana

#disillusionment #wisdom

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#blood #enough #give #i #i am

I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#american #american culture #archaeology #convinced #culture

Our goal is not to crush the enemy at any price, but to make it realize that it is illegal to take up arms to overthrow a democratically elected government. ↗

— Jose Eduardo Dos Santos

#arms #crush #democratically #elected #enemy

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#character #french #german #grammatical #illustrate

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#communication #essentially #illusion #imagine #incidental

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#communicating #everything #experienced #felt #human

It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#democratically #difficult #elections #incapable #part

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#curiosity #developed #except #frequent #had

I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#aspects #commercial #cultural #deny #disastrous