Must Quotes

Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.

We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’

You must lend an ear today, because we are the leaders of tomorrow

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis.

To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing.

If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.

But I must go, and I must do this thing, because my Lord will have it so. Rather now than tomorrow, and tomorrow than the day after!