The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing (c.1887) by Odilon Redon, a dictum from the Pensées (1669) by Blaise Pascal
Over the course of the last six months, I’ve assembled a collection of dicta.
A dictum is an authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; an adage, a maxim, an apothegm.
My method of collecting: Every time I read or heard or thought of an interesting dictum, I added it to the category.
There are now 200 articles in this category, a list of which you find below.
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- Television, the Drug of the Nation
- Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam
- Teutonico-Christian stupidity
- The Lord is in this place, how dreadful is this place
- The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
- The arse is truly is the idiot of the family
- The beast with two backs
- The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalogue of banned books
- The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator … adds his contribution to the creative act
- The death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world
- The difference between decent and indecent: it is the difference between a woman who is seen and a woman who exhibits herself
- The genitals are the real focus of the will
- The gods have given us one disobedient and unruly member
- The gods were bored, and so they created man
- The grass is always greener on the other side
- The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing
- The mind of man can imagine nothing which has not really existed
- The only way for us to become great lies in the imitation of the Greeks
- The pen is mightier than the sword
- The present age prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence
- The sexual impulse … appears as a malevolent demon that strives to pervert, confuse, and overthrow everything
- The simplest Surrealist act consists of running down into the street, pistols in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd
- The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak
- The terrestrial globe is covered with volcanoes, which serve as its anus
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts
- The will is a strong blind man
- There is no excellent beauty, that hath not some strangeness in the proportion
- There is no truth, there are only versions
- They don’t realize that we are bringing them the plague
- To arrive at the unknown through the disordering of all the senses, that’s the point
- To be governed is …
- To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness
- Traduttore, traditore
- Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms
- Two sides of a river
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