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Come hither, and I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out. (2 Esdras, 14:25)
There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
Seers and soothsayers read crystal balls to find the future. Less lucky men read junk with more success.
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it...the basest of all things is to be afraid.
Success makes us intolerant of failure, and failure makes us intolerant of success.
A woman does not have to make decisions based on the need to survive. She can cut through issues, call shots as she sees them.... Many bad decisions are made by men in government because it is good for them personally to make bad public decisions.
The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perseverance.
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?
A woman can look both moral and exciting - if she also looks as if it were quite a struggle.
All human joys are swift of wing, for heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it.
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about things.
I know I'm going to get old and be one of those crazy women who sits on balconies and spits on people and screams, 'Get a haircut!' I know this, and I don't really fear it. I'd just like to move toward it with as much grace and dignity as possible.
People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.
When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad that they have to get better.
Reasoning is compared to understanding as movement is to rest, or acquisition to possession.... Since movement always proceeds from something immovable, and ends in something at rest, hence it is that human reasoning, in the order of inquiry and discovery, proceeds from certain things absolutely understood?namely, the first principles; and, again, in the order of judgment, returns by analysis to first principles, in the light of which it examines what it has found. Now it is clear that rest and movement are not to be referred to different powers, but to one and the same.
If they try to rush me, I always say, I've only got one other speed and it's slower.
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
None of our men are "experts." We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job. A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is. Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the "expert" state of mind a great number of things become impossible.
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves.
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.