... we have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and pr...oviding for their bundance. Whatever we do, we are supposed to do for the sake of "making a living;" such is the verdict of society, and the number of people, especially in the professions who might challenge it, has decreased rapidly. The only exception society is willing to grant is to the artist, who, strictly speaking, is the only "worker" left in a laboring society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She even had a kind of special position among men: she was an exception, she fitted none of the categories they commonly used when... talking about girls; she wasn't a cock-teaser, a cold fish, an easy lay or a snarky bitch; she was an honorary person. She had grown to share their contempt for most women.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the l...ie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an exception?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If everything on television is, without exception, part of a low-calorie (or even no-calorie) diet, then what good is it complaini...ng about the adverts? By their worthlessness, they at least help to make the programmes around them seem of a higher level.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what h...e wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that ...a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection, and I am ...inclined to think that, with the exception of wisdom, no better thing has been given to man by the immortal godsLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whensoever any affliction assails me, me thinks I have the keyes of my prison in mine owne hand, and no remedy presents it selfe s...o soone to my heart, as mine own sword. Often meditation of this hath wonne me to a charitable interpretation of their action, who dy so: and provoked me a little to watch and exagitate their reasons, which pronounce so peremptory judgements upon them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whensoever any affliction assails me, mee thinks I have the keyes of my prison in mine owne hand, and no remedy presents it selfe ...so soone to my heart, as mine own sword. Often meditation of this hath wonne me to a charitable interpretation of their action, who dy so: and provoked me a little to watch and exagitate their reasons, which pronounce so peremptory judgements upon them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »