Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each others pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. – Ambrose Bierce
Art is nothing but the expression of our dream the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them. – Franz Marc
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us. – Charles de Secondat
It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individuals intelligence or morality. – Christian Lous Lange
