Is there something in trade that dessicates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly ther...e is. It is not due to trade but to intensity of self- seeking, combined with narrowness of occupation.... Business has destroyed the very knowledge in us of all other natural forces except business.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark--a shining space... With the grave's narrowness, though not its peace.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, suc...h feebleness of thought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog. There is something under our feet, the taken-for-g...ranted. A table is a table, food is food, we are we--because we don't question these things. And science is the enemy because it is the questioner. Faith saves our souls alive by giving us a universe of the taken-for-granted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fairmindedness should be confounded wi...th political trimming, or why serviceable truth should keep cloistered because not partisan.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Modesty and taste are questions of latitude and education; the more people know,--the more their ideas are expanded by travel, exp...erience, and observation,--the less easily they are shocked. The narrowness and bigotry of women are the result of their circumscribed sphere of thought and action.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »