We have had many harbingers and forerunners; but of a purely spiritual life, history has afforded no example. I mean we have yet n...o man who has leaned entirely on his character, and eaten angels' food; who, trusting to his sentiments, found life made of miracles; who, working for universal aims, found himself fed, he knew not how; clothed, sheltered, and weaponed, he knew not how, and yet it was done by his own hands.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The extrovert and introvert, the realist and idealist, the scientist and philosopher, the man who found himself by refinding his l...ife history and the individual who discovered his being in fantasy, these are the differences between Freud and Jung.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the natures of the times deceased,... The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The reason I do not spend my days in despair and my nights in hopeless weeping simply is that I am in love with my own ruin. I the...refore deserve no sympathy, and probably shan't get it: my own profound self-compassion is enough. I am so abominably self-conscious that no smallest detail in this tragedy eludes me. Day after day I sit in the theatre of my own life and watch the drama of my own history proceeding to its close. Pray God the curtain falls at the right moment lest the play drag on into some long and tedious anticlimax.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Had Dr. Johnson written his own life, in conformity with the opinion which he has given, that every man's life may be best written... by himself; had he employed in the preservation of his own history, that clearness of narration and elegance of language in which he has embalmed so many eminent persons, the world would probably have had the most perfect example of biography that was ever exhibited.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His function is too vague, his presence ...always seems one too many, his profit looks too easy, and even when you admit that he has a necessary function, you feel that this function is, as it were, a personification of something that in an ethical society would not need to exist. If people could deal with one another honestly, they would not need agents.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think that the heroism which at this day would make on us the impression of Epaminondas and Phocion must be that of a domestic c...onqueror. He who shall bravely and gracefully subdue this Gorgon of Convention and Fashion, and show men how to lead a clean, handsome and heroic life amid the beggarly elements of our cities and villages; whoso shall teach me how to eat my meat and take my repose and deal with men, without any shame following, will restore the life of man to splendor, and make his own name dear to all history.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art and poetry, in all its periods from the Heroic... and Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency ...in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... not only do ... women suffer ... indignities in daily life, but the literature of the world proclaims their inferiority and di...vinely decreed subjection in all history, sacred and profane, in science, philosophy, poetry, and song.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »