The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue.... Moreover this activity ...must occupy a complete lifetime; for one swallow does not make spring, nor does one fine day; and similarly one day or a brief period of happiness does not make a man supremely blessed and happy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What seems to be, is, to those to whom It seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful... Consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of Torments, despair, eternal death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities--a willing movement of a man's soul w...ith the larger sweep of the world's forces--a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various obj...ects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail..., is something else entirely and of an inferior order.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I hadn't an illusion in my handbag About the people being better there... Than those I left behind. I thought they weren't. I thought they couldn't be. And yet they were.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »