It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.
It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.
Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.
What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.
Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.
Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.
Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained.
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.
If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.
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