A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
Author: Norman Douglas
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living which are to be desired when dying.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living which are to be desired when dying.
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
The pine stays green in winter… wisdom in hardship.
The pine stays green in winter… wisdom in hardship.
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says but from what he fails to say and do.
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says but from what he fails to say and do.