Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.
The great secret is that an orchestra can actually play without a conductor at all. Of course, a great conductor will have a concept and will help them play together and unify them. But there are conductors that actually inhibit the players from playing with each other properly.
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
When I was 12 years old, I was obsessed with codes, conspiracies, and secret messages.
Dan Brown is a character from 'Foucault's Pendulum!' I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.
It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.
I've written, like, 450 comics, and 'Secret Six' was the first one I've had ship late, ever. So it took a lot to make that happen. So we had a little bit of a stop-and-start, and then we had Convergence, and then Issue No. 2 of 'Secret Six'.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
Counterintelligence is, in effect, chasing ghosts, which is why the tools used to investigate foreign intelligence activity are secret, like human sources or electronic surveillance.
The U.S., often in secret, carries out counterterrorism missions all the time, with drones in places like Yemen and Somalia.
The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.
Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.
After the 1970s, when President Nixon's illegal campaign cash was used as a secret slush fund to pay for the Watergate burglary and cover-up, Americans have demanded to know where the money fueling our elections is coming from.