Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go downhil...l. Hermits have observed, if for only this reason, a frugal diet. For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All the scientists hope to do is describe the universe mathematically, predict it, and maybe control it. The philosopher, by contr...ast, seems unbecomingly ambitious. He wants to understand the universe; to get behind phenomena and operation and solve the logically prior riddles of being, knowledge, and value. But the artist, and in particular the novelist, in his essence wishes neither to explain nor to control nor to understand the universe. He wants to make one of his own, and may even aspire to make it more orderly, meaningful, beautiful, and interesting than the one God turned out. What's more, in the opinion of many readers of literature, he sometimes succeeds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the ...world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. ...That's all there is to it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the profes...sions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilization and the end of the state and marriage were right after all; it is time for the demolition to begin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »