#is

Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes, will only be a small outward confirmation of what has been accomplished within me from day to day. ↗

— Etty Hillesum

#been #comes #confirmation #day #day to day

I got in trouble in Catholic school for rolling the waist of my skirt down. ↗

— Nicky Hilton

#catholic school #down #got #i #rolling

However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops. ↗

— Paul von Hindenburg

#could #cross #did #effect #fact

There is no great religion without a great schism. All of them have it. And that's because you're dealing with something called faith. And faith is not something you can prove; faith is personal opinion. Uh, when you're dealing with something with certainty, like, y'know, science or logic, you don't have the--there's no wiggle room; that's why history is not filled with warring math cults, y'know, because you can settle the issue; you can prove something to be right or wrong, and that's the end of the argument: next case. Whereas, when you're dealing with faith, you can forever argue your point, or another point, because you're dealing with intangibles. Personally, I think, faith is what you ask of somebody when you don't have the goods to prove your point. ↗

— Tom Quinn

#faith #mathematics #opinion #religion #schisms

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health. ↗

— Hippocrates

#amount #could #every #exercise #found

How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#fortunate #governments #how #people #think

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons. ↗

— Al Hirschfeld

#children #crayons #down #just #put

I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the best one to be, because my heroes were Goya and Francis Bacon. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#bacon #because #being #best #francis

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#eternal peace #grown #mankind #only #peace

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#acquaintances #cannot #careful #characters #choice