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Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy. - Paradoxes.
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy. - Paradoxes.
Virtue herself is her own fairest reward. - Punica.
Virtue herself is her own fairest reward. - Punica.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way read more
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities.
Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint. - Letters to His Son, read more
Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint. - Letters to His Son, W. B. Yeats and Others.
You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth.
You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth.
Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvation, to read more
It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvation, to whom abundance spells disaster, and to whom unlimited energy means unlimited power for war and destruction, there is an ominous cloud in the distance though at present it be no bigger than a man's hand.