In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans. |
It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. "They all eat one another!" he cried, and called it evil. This process I examined, changed the verb, said, "They all feed one another," and called it good. |
Let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open-eyed, the highest, not the lowest; the future, not the past! |
Life is a verb. |
New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American |
So when the great word "Mother!" rang once more, I saw at last its meaning and its place; Not the blind passion of the brooding past, But Mother -- the World's Mother -- come at last, To love as she had never loved before -- To feed and guard and teach the human race. |
The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a common school than can be taught in the most perfect family circle |
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society -- more briefly, to find your real job, and do it. |
The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it. |
The people people have for friends You common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all. |
There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. Might as well speak of a female liver. |
There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago. |
There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago. |
To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something |
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind. |