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 | "Maybe this world is another planet"s Hell." | |
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Found in the topic Hell.
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| "Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what
happens to you." | |
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Found in the topic Experience.
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| "Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient
means for going backwards." | |
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Found in the topic Technology.
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| "To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of
dogs." | |
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Found in the topic Dog.
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| "To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other
countries." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the
most important of all the lessons of history." | |
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Found in the topic History.
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| "Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble
of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves." | |
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Found in the topic Sick.
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| "After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the
inexpressible is music." | |
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Found in the topic Music.
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| "Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily
necessities." | |
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Found in the topic Habit.
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| "The traveler"s-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man
might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of
humanity at the end. To know, one must be An actor as well as a
spectator." | |
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Found in the topic Restaurants.
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| "The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions
with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first
appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen." | |
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Found in the topic Idea.
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| "Where beauty is worshipped for beauty"s sake as a goddess,
independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible
putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from
edifying commentary on the religion of beauty." | |
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Found in the topic Beauty.
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| "Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify
himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full,
significant and interesting." | |
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Found in the topic Interest.
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| "A bad book is as much labour to write as a good one; it comes as
sincerely from the author"s soul." | |
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Found in the topic Author.
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| "My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of
church going." | |
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Found in the topic Church.
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| "Facts are ventriloquists" dummies. Sitting on a wise man"s knee they
may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere they say nothing, or talk
nonsense, or indulge in sheer nonsense." | |
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Found in the topic Fact.
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| "Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is
prayer." | |
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Found in the topic Praise.
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| "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad." | |
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Found in the topic Truth.
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| "I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing
what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation ? the miracle, moment by
moment, of naked existence." | |
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Found in the topic Adam.
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| "If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress.
For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he
was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable
things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb." | |
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Found in the topic Intellectual.
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