Dandyism is especially likely to appear in those transitional ages in which democracy is not yet all-powerful and the aristocracy ...is only partially faltering and debased. In the confusion of such times certain men, déclassé, disgusted, idle, but all endowed with native strength, may conceive the project of founding a new kind of aristocracy, which will be all the more difficult to destroy as it will be based on the most precious and indestructible faculties, and on the God-given gifts which work and wealth cannot bestow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The raven is my talisman.... Death is my talisman, Mr. Chapman. The one indestructible force. The one certain thing in an uncertai...n universe. Death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift... to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial si...de; has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere, where it plays a part as indestructible as any other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open to al...l, rich, blameless and indestructible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The economic dependence of woman and her apparently indestructible illusion that marriage will release her from loneliness and wor...k and worry are potent factors in immunizing her from common sense in dealing with men at work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is "All striving is vain," will never reign supreme, for the impulse to tak...e life strivingly is indestructible in the race. Moral creeds which speak to that impulse will be widely successful in spite of inconsistency, vagueness, and shadowy determination of expectancy. Man needs a rule for his will, and will invent one if one be not given him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible in himself, though both the indestructible element and the t...rust may remain permanently hidden from him. One of the ways in which this hiddenness can express itself is through faith in a personal god.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Believing means liberating the indestructible element in oneself, or, more accurately, liberating oneself, or, more accurately, be...ing indestructible, or, more accurately, being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably in...divisible union that exists between human beings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »