Quotes of: Essay Keyword

Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.

Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays

Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) in a speech open to all, and to be free in a speech that never concludes.

Myself with Others: Selected Essays

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

The mind, when it reaches its limits, must make a judgment and choose its conclusions. This is where suicide and the reply stand.

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that is valuable in this mortal world.

The Necessity of Atheism and Other Essays

In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.

Nature and Selected Essays

Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live.

Lyrical and Critical Essays

In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.

Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

Beware what you wish for, unless you have the grace to hope that your luck can be shared.

Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to tell.

Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

At a certain point talk about 'essence' and 'oneness' and the universal becomes more tautological than inquisitive.

Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States.

Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion, it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from thes...

Tradition and the Individual Talent: An Essay

Scientist are human. Unraveling the knots of Nature's mysteries is a reward in itself; but even so, scientists like to hear the applause of the audience

The Tyrannosaurus Prescription and 100 Other Essays

This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white bed, silence.

Phoning Home: Essays

Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?

Poems, Plays and Miscellaneous Essays

For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to try to link essays to webcasts or videos. The best way for these two media to move forward, to inform and make change, is in tandem; together they are more ...

Naomi Wolf

The way I was educated, maybe from just inhaling something in the air back then, I grew up believing that E. B. White occupied the apex of essay writing.

Paul Di Filippo

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up.

Lenny Bruce

There was a man with tongue of wood Who essayed to sing, And in truth it was lamentable. But there was one who heard The clip-clapper of this tongue of wood And knew what the man Wished to sing, And with that the singer was content.

Stephen Crane