Quotes on Thrive

States are violent institutions. The government of any country, including ours, represents some sort of domestic power structure, and it's usually violent. States are violent to the extent that they're powerful, that's roughly accurate.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

I thrive best on solitude. If I have had a companion only one day in a week, unless it were one or two I could name, I find that the value of the week to me has been seriously affected. It dissipates my days, and often it takes me another week to get over it.

I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere; and less perfection in the others, with more health, virtue and freedom, would be my choice.

My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.

We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.

I just feel that my competitive drive is far greater than anyone else that I've met, and I think that I thrive on that.

I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars.

Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.

The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.