Julien Benda Quotes

#1. Survivors have responsibilities.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

#2. There is always a spark before a drive. Don't expect any miracle to occur in your life if you won't avail yourself to be sparked by the Holy Spirit of God!

Israelmore Ayivor

#3. When he died, he took part of me with him . I was stuck after that

Mitch Albom

#4. Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost.

Julien Benda

#5. I wrote for free for, like, fifteen years; I could redo my parlor in rejection slips. It would be surprisingly tasteful - they use nice paper.

MaryJanice Davidson

#6. The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt.

Julien Benda

#7. I don't think all writers are sad, she said. I think it's the other way around- all sad people write.

Lang Leav

#8. I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgement bar of God that I declared to the world, in the most straightforward language I could summon, that the Book of Mormon is true.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#9. The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.

Julien Benda

#10. Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.

Debbie Allen

#11. Philosophy, which formerly raised man to feel conscious of himself because he was a thinking being and to say, 'I think therefore I am," now raises him to say ... "I think, therefore I am not," (unless he takes thought into consideration only in that humble region where it is confused with action).

Julien Benda

#12. Life is a cruel teacher. It punishes you first, and then gives you the lesson.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#13. It's like the more money we come across / the more problems we see.

The Notorious B.I.G.

#14. All Europe, including Erasmus, has followed Luther.

Julien Benda

#15. Lord, I have let myself be deceived; in a thousand ways I have shunned your love, yet here I am once more, to renew my covenant with you. I need you. Save me once again, Lord, take me once more into your redeeming embrace.

Pope Francis

#16. I'd become an uncertain creature in her mind, and I found I liked it; she couldn't fathom what else I might be doing when her eyes weren't on me.

Anna Freeman

#17. I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.

Julien Benda

#18. The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.

Julien Benda

#19. Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things "which cannot be shared," and if they raise themselves to a point where they adopt an abstract principle superior to their egotisms. In other words, it can only be obtained by a betterment of human morality.

Julien Benda

#20. We got there without being spotted. I pulled her in, then shut the door, pressing my back to it and exhaling like an epileptic pilot who'd just landed a cargo plane full of dynamite.

Brandon Sanderson

#21. Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.

W.B.Yeats

#22. Teachers ... preach "the superiority of the intelligence"; but they preach it because in their opinion it is the intelligence which shows us the actions required for our interests, i.e. from exactly the same passion for the practical.

Julien Benda

#23. It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill.

Julien Benda

#24. And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

Julien Benda

#25. You have to get older. Growing up is negotiable.

Rob Harrell