Time has an undertaking establishment on every block and drives his coffin nails faster than the steam riveters rivet or the steno...graphers type or the tickers tick out fours and eights and dollar signs and ciphers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the convict...ion that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What are the characters that I discern most clearly in the so-called Anglo-Saxon type of man? I may answer at once that two stick ...out above all others. One is his curious and apparently incurable incompetence--his congenital inability to do any difficult thing easily and well, whether it be isolating a bacillus or writing a sonata. The other is his astounding susceptibility to fears and alarms--in short, his hereditary cowardice.... There is no record in history of any Anglo-Saxon nation entering upon any great war without allies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What characterizes and defines our intellectual situation is precisely the wealth of contents that can no longer be mastered, the ...swollen facticity of knowledge (including moral facts), the spilling out of experience over the surfaces of nature, the impossibility of achieving an overview, the chaos of things that cannot be denied. We will perish from this, or overcome it by becoming a spiritually stronger type of human being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He turned out to belong to the type of publisher who dreams of becoming a male muse to his author, and our brief conjunction ended... abruptly upon his suggesting I replace chess by music and make Luzhin a demented violinist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have used these weeks to "transvaluate values."MDo you understand this trope?--At bottom, the goldmaker is the most worthy human... type there is: I mean him who out of next to nothing, out of what is despicable, makes something valuable, even gold. He alone enriches, the others only exchange. My task is absolutely singular this time: I have asked myself what it is that has been must hated, feared, and despised by mankind up to now--and out of this I have made my "gold."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you think about it, a peer group is nothing but an empathic envelope without adults around. It has the same three characteristi...cs of a family. It has its own type of empathy ("We understand you, even if no one else does."); it has clear expectations ("Break rules and you're out."); and it offers kids a chance to spend time with one another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I felt more than ever the necessity of my mission. But I went home out of spirits, I hardly know why. I must work by myself all li...fe long.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The foolish fears of what might happen. I cast them all away... Among the clover-scented grass, Among the new-mown hay, Among the husking of the corn, Where drowsy poppies nod Where ill thoughts die and good are born-- Out in the fields with God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »