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Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have read more
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
All of us are watchers -- of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway -- but few are read more
All of us are watchers -- of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway -- but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.
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.
It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.
No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.
Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, read more
Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.
The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything read more
The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism. - Essays and Aphorisms.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive read more
Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.
