Showing posts with label Nicholas Chamfort. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nicholas Chamfort. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Quotes

Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to
pessimism. You become a pessimist --a demonic, elemental,
bestial pessimist --only when life has been defeated many
times in its fight against depression.
- E. M. Cioran

"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict
myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
- Walt Whitman

"Physicists like to think that all you have to do is
say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?"
- Richard Feynman

"I had a monumental idea this
morning, but I didn't like it."
- Samuel Goldwyn

"You get the best out of others when
you get the best out of yourself."
- Harvey S. Firestone

"An economist is a surgeon with an excellent
scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates
beautifully on the dead and tortures the living."
- Nicholas Chamfort