The new man is born too old to tolerate the new world. The present conditions of life have not yet erased the traces of the past. We run too fast, but we still do not move enough. He looks but he does not contemplate, he sees but he does not think. He runs away from time, which is made of thought, and yet all he can feel is his own time, the present. - Eugenio Montale
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If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon. - Aleister Crowley Obedience without faith is possible, but not faith without obedience. - Unknown Source Knowledge is the only elegance. - Ralph Waldo Emerson It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. - John Andrew Holmes To be great is to be misunderstood. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from others. As long as its spell lasts, the only in-between which can insert itself between two lovers is the child, love's own product. The child, this in-between to which the lovers now are related and which they hold in common, is representative of the world in that it also separates them; it is an indication that they will insert a new world into the existing world. Through the child, it is as though the lovers return to the world from which their love had expelled them. But this new worldliness, the possible result and the only possibly happy ending of a love affair, is, in a sense, the end of love, which must either overcome the partners anew or be transformed into another mode of belonging together. - Hannah Arendt He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live. - Proverbs One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad. - Elbert Hubbard The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country. - Sir Hardy Amies Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other; given the upper, to find the under side. - Ralph Waldo Emerson A great man is always willing to be little. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson As soon as we stop worrying, a solution pops up. ~ David DeNotaris He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others. - Johann Kaspar Lavater Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed. - Ralph Waldo Emerson I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty. - Ellen Sturgis Hooper Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself. " - Pearl S. Buck According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively. - Albert Einstein A mousetrap always provides free cheese. - Unknown Source The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead. - Clarence Day TRUST: I know that you will not -- deliberately or accidentally, consciously or unconsciously -- take unfair advantage of me. I can put my situation at the moment, my status and self-esteem in this group, our relationship, my job, my career, even my life, in your hands with complete confidence. - Douglas Murray Mcgregor The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge We should keep so close to facts that we never have to remember the second time what we said the first time. - F. Marion Smith |
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