It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere. |
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. |
It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one. |
Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is |
Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is |
Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere. |
Life isn't all fricassied frog and eel pie. |
Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality |
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. |
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. |
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time. |
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained |
Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope |
Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them. |
Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth. |