This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of the first measures taken by the new Bolshevik government in 1918 was to make public the entire corpus of tsarist secret diplomacy, all...
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For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public,...
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Milan Kundera
Who you are in public is a test of your conviction; who you are in private, integrity.
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Criss Jami
The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities.. A fresh mode of Beauty is absolutely distasteful to them, and whenever it appears they get so angry and bewildered...
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Oscar Wilde
To make your Opinion Count, you have to do something morethan just making Money.
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Vineet Raj Kapoor
More Quotes By Johann Kaspar Lavater
Say not you know another entirely, till you have divided an inheritance with him.
Make this poor self grow less and less, Be Thou my life and aim ; Oh, make me daily, through Thy grace, More worthy of Thy name.
About Fuseli: "...the most original genius I know. Nothing but energy, profusion and calm! The wildness of the warrior–and the feeling of supreme sublimity! Â …Â His spirits are storm wind, his ministers flames of fire! He goes upon the wings of the wind. His...
Cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.
