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Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on read more
Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
Intelligence is that faculty of mind, by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered.
Intelligence is that faculty of mind, by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered.
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I read more
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.
Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.
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.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the read more
Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky.
Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.
Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.
Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
