Top 48 Schmitt's Quotes
#1. In Antarctica, it looks like the total volume (of ice) is increasing and if that's true, that's probably why you're getting increased ice moving away from the center of the continent and therefore these big icebergs and stuff are breaking off.
Harrison Schmitt
#2. I want to paint a canvasthat will be nothing but harmonious tone.
Carl Schmitt
#3. Your love for her belongs to you. It's yours. Even if she refuses it, she cannot change it. She isn't benefiting from it, thats all. What you give, Momo, is yours forever. What you keep is lost for all time!"-Monsieur Ibrahim
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
#4. Balthazar Balsan is not a self-portrait. If he was, I'd have made the character more flattering.
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
#5. A world state which which embraces the entire globe and all of humanity cannot exist. The political world is a pluriverse, not a universe.
Carl Schmitt
#7. I really enjoy spending Sunday evenings with friends, because Sunday evenings are always frightening. You are obsessed by the fact that you are working again the next day. And sometimes you get the blues. I always decide to spend it with friends. It's very nice.
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
#9. I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music. I listen to music on a Walkman; it's from the 19th century, I know.
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
#10. [T]he great champion of the opponents of liberty, namely communism, had to find some other place to go and they basically went into the environmental movement.
Harrison Schmitt
#11. Monsieur Ibrahim: To find out if a country is rich or poor, look at the bins. If there are bins and no rubbish, it's rich. If there's rubbish by the bins, it's neither rich nor poor... it's touristy. And if there's rubbish but no bins, then it's poor.
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
#12. In the temporal sphere, the temptation to evil inherent in every power is certainly unceasing. Only in God is the conflict between power and good ultimately resolved. But the desire to escape this conflict by rejecting every earthly power would lead to the worst inhumanity.
Carl Schmitt
#13. It might be helpful to realize, that very probably the parents of the first native born Martians are alive today.
Harrison Schmitt
#15. Development is among the most important long-term multilateral agendas existing today. As we all know, lasting peace cannot be achieved unless large population groups find ways in which to break out of poverty.
Pal Schmitt
#16. When I don't like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely
Florent Schmitt
#17. I have some beautiful 20th-century drawings and a few paintings, but I'm not a collector, and I'm not particularly attached to objects.
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
#18. When will we learn that childhood is in a great sense not simply a preparation for adult life but a thing unique and complete in itself - a masterpiece of God.
Carl Schmitt
#19. I find mirrors detestable; I dislike seeing myself. Of course, there's a mirror in the bathroom, but it's a magnifying one for shaving. Photographs are fine, but I don't like mirrors because they take you by surprise.
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
#20. We moved her into the garage, made up a comfy bed and supplied a litter box, food and water. One day I came home from work and my husband had moved all of them into the house. We already had eight indoor cats so I wasn't really happy to have four more move in.
Kurt Schmitt
#21. The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.
Carl Schmitt
#22. The 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making. It has no place in the Society's activities.
Harrison Schmitt
#23. The essence of liberalism is negotiation, a cautious half measure, in the hope that the definitive dispute, the decisive bloody battle, can be transformed into a parliamentary debate and permit the decision to be suspended forever in an everlasting discussion.
Carl Schmitt
#24. All law is situational law. The sovereign produces and guarantees the situation in its totality. He has the monopoly over this last decision.
Carl Schmitt
#25. Everything in life can be tiring and tiresome if we don't have the ability to look at it as if it's the first time we've ever done it.
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
#26. The basic outline of the philosophy of the Buribunks: I think, therefore I am; I speak therefore I am; I write, therefore I am; I publish therefore I am.
Carl Schmitt
#27. The most brazen humiliation ever inflicted upon God and mankind, justifying all the curses of the synagogue, is to be found in the 'sive' of the formula Deus sive Natura.
Carl Schmitt
#28. The building was crowded with men and women packing stuff into boxes and bags, leather stuff, nylon, canvas, and rubber stuff, with brass rings and silver chains, steel buckles and studded straps. Elephant stuff.
Richard Schmitt
#29. I don't think the human effect [of climate change] is significant compared to the natural effect.
Harrison Schmitt
#30. It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like.
Jack Schmitt
#31. Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.
Carl Schmitt
#32. The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition.
Carl Schmitt
#33. But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.
Jack Schmitt
#34. Time is, in fact, a cross to bear, it passes on inexorably and remorselessly, destroying everything in its wake, save art and works of the intellect.
Jack Schmitt
#35. When I start a book, it's every day. There is no Saturday, no Sunday. It's every day, because if I stop one day, I'm afraid of losing the book and losing the energy.
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
#36. The crisis of European jurisprudence began a century ago with the victory of legal positivism.
Carl Schmitt
#37. The metaphysical image that a definite epoch forges of the world has the same structure as what the world immediately understands to be appropriate as a form of its political organization.
Carl Schmitt
#38. Legality has become a poisonous dagger, with which one party stabs the other in the back.
Carl Schmitt
#39. It's great that people are interested in Mars.
Jack Schmitt
#40. Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are.
Carl Schmitt
#41. That day, she became categorically certain of two things: that he annoyed her, profoundly, and, if she could, she would never leave him.
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
#42. Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not be treated equally. Democracy requires, therefore, first homogeneity and second - if the need arises elimination or eradication of heterogeneity.
Carl Schmitt
#45. What the public wants today and what it sees as important down the road will almost certainly not be the same.
Gary Schmitt
#46. Several indisputable facts appear evident in geological and climate science that make me a true 'denier' of human-caused global warming.
Harrison Schmitt
#47. In Brussels, you are able to have a lot of appointments in a day. In Paris, you can have one, two, maybe three, but you spend all your time on the road, in the car or in the suburbs. In Brussels, everything is easy. It's not a very big city, and the people are very quiet and warm.
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
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