L.A. Paul Quotes

...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.

Theology moves back and forth between two poles, the eternal truth of its foundations and the temporal situation in which the eternal truth must be received.

I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.

Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity.

One may not eat what has a face.

The worst thing is not being wrong, but being sure one is not wrong.

Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life.

It's a short trip from the penthouse to the outhouse.

California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands.

Einstein, my upset stomach hates your theory [of General Relativity]—it almost hates you yourself! How am I to' provide for my students? What am I to answer to the philosophers?!!

We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!

Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

At a moment that comes rarely in the life of a country. It is a time when destiny is ours to hold.

A real writer can be recognized by the fact he doesn't find words. Therefore he must search for them and while doing that, he finds better ones.

If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear.

Trance had become a dirty word. Thanks to Ian Van Dahl, Lasgo, Flip 'N' Fill and DJ Sammy, a generation of kids has grown up thinking trance is the shittiest music since country and western.

As I said back in 1984, the idea of logistics is not only about oil, about ammunitions and supplies but also about images.

I can't think of a better model for Haiti rebuilding than Rwanda.

If we consider my latest book, Strategie de la deception, what we need to focus on are the other aspects of the same phenomenon.

While the human gaze becomes more and more fixed, losing some of its natural speed and sensitivity, photographic shots, on the contrary, become even faster.

In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes.

You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature.

We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles.

People have to decide, first of all, how they'd like to live, and how secure they want to be from disaster. After that, scientists can help determine what would be necessary to achieve that.

We live in a media culture and whoever controls and influences and uses media the best has the power for change.

When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7.

If I have to go around telling everyone how great I am, then there's something wrong with my act.

Television, I'm afraid, has isolated us more than race, class, or ethnicity.

Musicians have the power to influence people and along with movie makers, they can reach and influence more people than any group of people, more than scientists and certainly more than politicians.

Sketching is a continuing source of learning rather than a string of performances.

No diety will save us; we must save ourselves.

Anyone telling about his travels must be a liar, . . . for if a traveler doesn't visit his narrative with the spirit and techniques of fiction, no one will want to hear it.

Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and it's fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgment.

Travelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are lucky, humility.

Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice.

The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

I'm always looking forward to what I'm doing now, and what's ahead.

I think the world is really small today, and fashion, from that end of it, it's instantaneous everywhere.

What saved the economy, and the New Deal, was the enormous public works project known as World War II, which finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy’s needs.

There's always something in most world folk musics that always seems connected; whether it's a bagpipe or a tambura, there's always some sort of drone instrument, and there's always percussion.

But if I wasn't playing, I would drink Saturdays, then Sunday, then Monday. Then I would try and train and it was no good, then have another drink just to pass the day away.

Nothing exciting ever happens to me.

If I want to be a better person for whoever is in my life, I have to learn.

I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.

Where, if not in the Divine Mercy, can the world find refuge and the light of hope?

To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.

Neither fear nor resist change - cultivate it.

We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me.

Open your minds and hearts to the beauty of all that God has made and to His special, personal love for each one of you.