“There are no principles, only events. ”
Talleyrand
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
Similar quotes
“The control of events has been taken out of our hands...we have fallen into the mighty current of eternal principles-invisible forces-which are shaping and fashioning events as they wish, using us only as instruments to work out their own results in our national destiny.”
Frederick Douglass
“Probably our lives are full of symbols which only an unacknowledged sense perceives. Spiritual events assume a material guise, in accordance with some creative principle, but do not insist on recognition. ("Absolute Evil")”
Julian Hawthorne
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps
“The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes.”
Paul Karl Feyerabend
“Power lacks moral or principles. It only has interests.”
Horacio Castellanos Moya
“we are all born for love; it is the principle of existence and it's only end!”
Henry Finck