People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find read more

The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof.

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They read more

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you. - Essays.

The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, over every idea.

The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, over every idea.

Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life.

Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste.
[Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne
Geschmack.]

There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste.
[Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne
Geschmack.]

To linger in the observation of things other than the self implies a profound conviction of their worth. - My read more

To linger in the observation of things other than the self implies a profound conviction of their worth. - My Friends the Senses.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of read more

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.