Neither - Quotes
Thinking must never submit itself, neither to a dogma, nor to a party, nor to a passion, nor to an interest, nor to a preconceived idea, nor to whatever it may be, if not to facts themselves, because, for it, to submit would be to cease to be.
To women who please me only by their faces I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts when they open to me a perspective of flatness, triviality, and perhaps imbecility, coarseness, and ill-temper: but to the clear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break - at once supple and stable, tractable and consistent - I am ever tender and true.
If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.
We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.
Write them, above all, in your heart; there they can be neither burned nor destroyed, and you will take them wherever you go.
Do not ask yourself if your love is big enough, because love is neither big nor small, it is simply love.
If there is mercy in nature, it is accidental. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.
Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.
We`re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.