John Kemp > John's Quotes

“It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“The reality that I had known no longer existed. The places that we have known belong now only to the little world of space on which we map them for our own convenience. None of them was ever more than a thin slice, held between the contiguous impressions that composed our life at that time; remembrance of a particular form is but regret for a particular moment; and houses, roads, avenues are as fugitive, alas, as the years.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.”
― Henry Kissinger, On China

“Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.”
― Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy

“understanding a question is half an answer”
― Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates