... the ... radio station played a Chopin polonaise. On all the following days news bulletins were prefaced by Chopin--preludes, e...tudes, waltzes, mazurkas. The war became for me a victory, known in advance, Chopin over Hitler.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons on earth, to w...hich you condemn in advance all the wretched felons your police have hunted from the beginning--"enemies of society," as you call them. You're kind enough to include the blasphemers and the profane. What proud or reasonable man could stomach such a notion of God's justice? And when you find that notion inconvenient it's easy enough for you to put it on one side.... Hell is not to love any more, madame. Not to love any more!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All I want is the moon, Helicon. I know in advance what will kill me. I have not yet exhausted all that can make me live. That is ...why I want the moon.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mining today is an affair of mathematics, of finance, of the latest in engineering skill. Cautious men behind polished desks in Sa...n Francisco figure out in advance the amount of metal to a cubic yard, the number of yards washed a day, the cost of each operation. They have no need of grubstakes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Theology starts with dogmas, philosophy begins with problems. Philosophy sees the problem first, theology has the answer in advanc...e. We must not, however, disregard another important difference. Not only are the problems of philosophy not identical with the problems of religion; their status is not the same. Philosophy is, in a sense, a kind of thinking that has a beginning but no end. In it, the awareness of the problem outlives all solutions. Its answers are questions in disguise; every new answer giving rise to new questions. In religion, on the other hand, the mystery of the answer hovers over all questions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He who wishes to maintain that the past of mankind no longer has any absolute value in life ... must also be ready to deny his own... life until the present moment, indeed in advance until the last moment, as worthless. He who realizes that culture is the giving of form will also see that the highest forms that it is given to the human spirit to recognize have always been, psychologically considered, such evasions from the present. Considerations such as these do not at all square with the direction of America's mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What in fact have I achieved, however much it may seem? Bits and pieces ... trivialities. But here they won't tolerate anything el...se, or anything more. If I wanted to take one step in advance of the current views and opinions of the day, that would put paid to any power I have. Do you know what we are ... those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be in...teresting.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these... in advance or not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible; and as the test of belief is willingness t...o act, one may say that faith is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue of which is not certified to us in advance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »