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. . . the ship struck at ten minutes after four A.M., and all hands, being mostly in their... More
... even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing... More
... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending. More
... here, where the gaze is stopped everywhere, the whole earth is designed so that the face... More
... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a... More
... I want to live and be happy. I believe that we cannot be one or the other by pushing the... More
... if it be true that death is annihilation, then the man who believes that he will certainly go... More
... if we take the universe of ‘fitting,’ countless coats ‘fit’ backs, and countless... More
... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is... More
... like anyone else who does not have a soul, you cannot stand anyone who has too much of one.... More
... Ma hiatus between two nothings— ... More
... metaphysics, even bad metaphysics, really rests on observations, whether consciously or not;... More
... moral certainty is certainty which is sufficient to regulate our behaviour, or which measures... More
... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp. More
... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to... More
... religious experience, as we have studied it, cannot be cited as unequivocally supporting the... More
... the God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men’s minds is far from being the same from... More
... the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect. More
... the moment we try to fix our attention upon consciousness and to see what, distinctly, it is,... More
... there are two types of happiness and I have chosen that of the murderers. For I am happy.... More
... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how... More
... we have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of... More
... whatever men do or know or experience can make sense only to the extent that it can be spoken... More
...I was your luxury. For nineteen years I have been put in your man’s world and was forbidden... More
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia. More
A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the... More
A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and... More
A blessing through the ages thus
Shield all thy roofs and towers!
God with the fathers,... More
A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents. More
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out. More
A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners,... More
A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table... More
A breath of will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of Right and... More
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no... More
A CAUSE is an object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it that the idea of... More
A cell for prayer, a hall for joy,—
They treated nature as they would. More
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain. More
A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza;—read it forward, backward, or across, it... More
A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the... More
A church that can never have done with excommunicating Christ while it exists! Away with your... More
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed. More
A classical work doesn’t ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and... More
A classification is a definition comprising a system of definitions. More
A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectable and... More
A cold and searching wind drives away all contagion, and nothing can withstand it but what has a... More
A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is, that you may see a file of soldiers,... More
A conceived thing is doubly a product of mind, more a product of mind, if you will, than an idea,... More
A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not... More
A confession has to be part of your new life. More
A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. More
A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none. More
A counterfeiting law-factory, standing half in a slave land and half in a free! What kind of laws... More
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach. More
A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put in three... More
A day for toil, an hour for sport,
But for a friend is life too short. More
A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its... More
A deep man believes in miracles, waits for them, believes in magic, believes that the orator will... More
A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was... More
A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on... More
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a... More
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it... More
A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart. More
A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid... More
A drop of water has the properties of the sea, but cannot exhibit a storm. There is beauty of a... More
A fact is a proposition of which the verification by an appeal to the primary sources of our... More
A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the... More
A familiar name cannot make a man less strange to me. It may be given to a savage who retains in... More
A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center. More
A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a... More
A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can... More
A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong... More
A few hours’ mountain climbing turns a rogue and a saint into two roughly equal creatures.... More
A few pieces of fat pine were a great treasure. It is interesting to remember how much of this... More
A few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the... More
A few years before I lived in the woods there was what was called a “winged cat” in one of... More
A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and... More
A figment is a product of somebody’s imagination; it has such characters as his thought... More
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and... More
A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of... More
A Frenchman is self-assured because he regards himself personally both in mind and body as... More
A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean. More
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. More
A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing... More
A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and... More
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature. More
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything. More
A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy. More
A garden has this advantage, that it makes it indifferent where you live. A well-laid garden... More
A garden is like those pernicious machineries we read of, every month, in the newspapers, which... More
A genuinely free and educated man should be able to tune himself, as one tunes a musical... More
A good aphorism is too hard for the teeth of time and is not eaten up by all the centuries, even... More
A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck. More
A good deal of our politics is physiological. More
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. More
A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble... More
A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean... More
A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on. More
A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least,... More
A good performance, like a human life, is a temporal affair—a process in time. It is good as a... More
A good preface must be the root and the square of the book at the same time. More

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