#no

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny. ↗

— Irving Berlin

#corny #element #enough #every #idea

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#appear #barbarians #came #come #curious

I was asked to go to Cannes to present Amores Perros. And little did I know that this film would be huge. I saw it for the first time in Cannes, and it was the first time I'd seen myself on such a big screen. And it had a huge impact on me - it was the strangest feeling. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#big #big screen #cannes #did #feeling

A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#art #because #command #creation #does

A great many grown-up and intelligent people believe, or pretend to believe, that by behaving in a friendly and accommodating way to our attackers, we will show them that they have nothing to fear from us and so defuse their wrath. The idea that such behavior would be taken by a ruthless and implacable enemy only as a sign of weakness is as foreign to them as the idea of honor itself. ↗

— James Bowman

#weakness #intelligence

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#civilization #constitute #enough #exists #masses

Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#destroy #divine #does #faith #imposed

A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes. ↗

— Claude Bernard

#fact #furnishes #idea #itself #nothing

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. ↗

— Claude Bernard

#knowledge #mediocre #mediocre men #men #most

I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself? ↗

— Yogi Berra

#bat #bats #blame #change #fault