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Letter "C" » Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
«The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.»
Author: Czeslaw Milosz
«I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.»
Author: Czeslaw Milosz
«Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.»
Author: Czeslaw Milosz
«Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.»
Author: Czeslaw Milosz
«At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor, Here, gusts of heat; at my back, white clouds. I stare and stare. It seems I was called for this: To glorify things just because they are.»
Author: Czeslaw Milosz
«Vulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable and explained. It is like a system of bridges built over chasms. One can travel boldly ahead over these bridges, ignoring the chasms. It is forbidden to look down into them; but that, alas, does not alter the fact that they exist.»
Author: Czeslaw Milosz
«What is poetry which does not save nations or people?»
Author: Czeslaw Milosz
«The masses in highly industrialized countries like England, the United States, or France are largely de-Christianized. Technology, and the way of life it produces, undermines Christianity far more effectively than do violent measures.»
Author: Czeslaw Milosz
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