Tomas Garrigue Masaryk quotes

Tomas Garrigue Masaryk quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being”
-- Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

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“Wherever the trout are, it's beautiful.”
-- Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

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“Zionism has gained my full sympathy and I appreciate it much higher than what is called nationalism in modern France. It is a progressive movement, a reawakening, of which I expect a lot for the entire civilization.”
-- Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

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“Dictators always look good until the last minutes.”
-- Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

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“We shall always be a small minority in the world, but, when a small nation accomplishes something with its limited means, what it achieves has an immense and exceptional value, like the widow's mite. It is a deliberate and discerning love of a nation that appeals to me, not the indiscriminate love that assumes everything to be right because it bears a national label. Love of one's own nation should not entail non-love of other nations. Institutions by themselves are not enough.”
-- Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

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“The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.”

Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.2, Courier Corporation
“I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.”
“Expression and communication in the peakâ€“experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.”
“Perhaps we should keep our monsters about us, lest we become them ourselves.”
“It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.”
“My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.”
“When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.”
“Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.”

Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă ("Nationality in Art")". Naţionalitatea în artă ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.
“We must remember that knowledge of oneâ€™s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.”
“Why.. is human desire so unsatisfying?”

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