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The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television.
With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China.
To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
Barbarism is not the inheritance of our pre-history. It is the companion that dogs our every step.
I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.
No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?
Adventure today means finding one's way back to the silence and stillness of a thousand years ago.
Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.
Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.
The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.
Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.
I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.
There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.
The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .
There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.
Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.
Always maintain your common sense and artful skills, and funnel it all into plain enough dealings.
We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.
There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.
When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races.
Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means.
What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.
Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.
The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.
A poem is a construction of inner space. Language is to inner space as light is to material space.
I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.
I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.
The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.
When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics.
Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.
There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
If there's a poster boy for the fact that all essays are written through personae, it's Crèvecoeur.
Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
A religious hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings but makes her rejoice in them.
There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.
Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.
I would say that by virtue of transforming politics, [Dalai Lama] is in fact easily underestimated.
All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Friends are like spaghetti, they should stick together. The only way to have a friend is to be one.
The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.
Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.