Quotes Temple

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Time is money.

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.