Giovanni della Casa quotes

Giovanni della Casa quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.”
-- Giovanni della Casa

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“A man must...not be content to do things well, but must also aim to do them gracefully.”
-- Giovanni della Casa

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“The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.”
“Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.”
“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”
“If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.”
“What rights are those that dare not resist for them?”
“Any kind of conflict draws me to a role.”

Source : "Angels and demons" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2008.
“Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.”
“The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.”
“The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.”

Source : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, Rama P. Coomaraswamy (2004). “The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy”, p.133, World Wisdom, Inc
“Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit down upon it; the horrid thing will not partake the chair with you.”

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