Salvador Dalí

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí Doménech (1904-1989), or Salvador Dalí, was a Spanish artist, writer, and critic. He was a member of the surrealist movement and is most well known for the painting The Persistence of Memory, and for his eccentric public persona.

Don't be afraid of perfection. You will never attain it!

Diary of a Genius

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

Diary of a Genius

I am dumbfounded at how little philosophical and metaphysical importance the human mind has attached to the vital subject of excrement.

Diary of a Genius

I don't take drugs, I am the drug.

Revelando a Dalí

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

Diary of a Genius

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Diary of a Genius

The fact that I myself, at the moment of painting, do not understand my own pictures, does not mean that these pictures have no meaning….

My Pictoral Struggle

The Parthenon was not built as a ruin.

Dali and Me (Millet)

Then all explanation arises a posteriori; once the picture already exists as phenomenon.

My Pictoral Struggle

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Dali par Dali (Morse)

We will not always bear on our shoulders the weight of our father's corpse.

Dali and Me (Millet)

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

Quotes

It’s all well and good to say that reality exists only in one’s mind, but those who believe it should still look both ways before crossing the street.

Scott Hahn

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

Milton Friedman

For that is what truth is: conformity of thought to reality.

Peter Kreeft

I envy people who drink. At least they know what to blame everything on.

Oscar Levant

‘Power comes out of the barrel of a gun!’ is an absurd rallying cry when the other side has all the guns.

Saul Alinsky

Successful people don’t wish for success; they decide to pursue it.

Scott Adams

The fact that I want to fly to Albuquerque does not constitute probable cause for an invasive search.

Scott Bradford

By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.

Paul Krugman

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so faith apart from works is dead.

James the Just

I don’t take drugs, I am the drug.

Salvador Dalí

To speak in general terms, we may say that the Christian is to the world what the soul is to the body. As the soul is present in every part of the body, while remaining distinct from it, so Christians are found in all the cities of the world, but cannot be identified with the world.

Clement of Rome

Evil can be eradicated from the world at large only when it is eradicated from the hearts and lives of individual human beings. Only when there is virtue in souls can there be peace and happiness in society.

Peter Kreeft

No free government under heaven, with a well disciplined militia, was ever yet subdued by mercenary troops.

Anonymous

If tyranny is at all feared, the tyranny of the many is to be guarded against more than that of a single person.

Anonymous

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The more numerous an assembly may be, of whatever characters composed, the greater is known to be the ascendency of passion over reason.

James Madison

Conscience has rights because it has duties.

John Henry Newman

If we knew how often we were wrong about our understanding of just about everything, it would be deeply demotivating.

Scott Adams

All our rulers have said that war is unthinkable, and then we think about it almost all the time. We’ve got to make it unthinkable.

Norman Thomas

I wasn’t a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn’t spring full bloom from my brow, they came from the heart of a great nation—from our experience, our wisdom, and our belief in the principles that have guided us for two centuries.

Ronald Reagan