Is our day of creative life finished? Does there remain to us only the strange, awful afterwards of the knowledge in dissolution, ...the African knowledge, but different for us, who are blond and blue-eyed from the north?.... There was another way, the way of freedom. There was the paradisal entry into pure, single being ... which accepted the obligation of the permanent connection with others, and with the other, submits to the yoke and leash of love, but never forfeits its own proud individual singleness, even while it loves and yields.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your ...utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the... other fellow to make the first move--and he, in turn, waits for you. The minute a person whose word means a great deal dares to take the open- hearted and courageous way, many others follow. Not everyone can be turned aside from meanness and hatred, but the great majority of Americans is heading in that direction. I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance--nothing more. But to lose oneself in a... city--as one loses oneself in a forest--that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To get a man soundly saved it is not enough to put on him a pair of new breeches, to give him regular work, or even to give him a ...University education. These things are all outside a man, and if the inside remains unchanged you have wasted your labour. You must in some way or other graft upon the man's nature a new nature, which has in it the element of the Divine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Religion means goal and way, politics implies end and means. The political end is recognizable by the fact that it may be attained...--in success--and its attainment is historically recorded. The religious goal remains, even in man's highest experiences, that which simply provides direction on the mortal way; it never enters into historical consummation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This perpetual round of constrained civilities to persons quite indifferent to us, is the most provoking and tiresome thing in the... world, but it is unavoidable in a country town, where everybody is known.... 'Tis a most shocking and unworthy way of spending our precious irrecoverable time, to those who know not its value.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Theorists may say what they like about a man's children being a continuation of his own identity, but it will generally be found t...hat those who talk in this way have no children of their own. Practical family men know better.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »