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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.
My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.
Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he read more
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to.
Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to.
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
