The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope. |
The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea |
The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea |
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little. |
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors. |
The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence. |
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. |
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. |
To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others |
To reject the word is to reject the human search. |
We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living. |
We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living. |
We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it. |
When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable. |
When you are seventeen you aren't really serious. |