Quotes of: Essay Keyword

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.

The Best American Essays 2007

Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.

The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

A writer has no use for the clock. A writer lives in an infinity of days, time without end, ploughed under.

Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

From the moment that man submits God to moral judgment, he kills Him his own heart.

The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

Any amount of theology can be smuggled into people's minds under cover of romance without them knowing it.

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism.

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

The key is to integrate our art into our life, not the other way around.

Letting Go of the Camera: Essays on Photography and the Creative Life

After 25 the only thing you’ll be precocious at is death.

My Letter to Fear: Essays on Life, Love and the Search for Prince Charming

Poet To mask the fiery thought, in simple words succeeds. For still the craft of genius is, To mask a king in weeds

Selected Essays, Lectures, and Poems

A modern culture built on the back of dying gods immerses me.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

Holding fantasy to our chests only means our hands are not free to work.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

I miss more loving someone so deeply that I can't imagine a forever without her kisses.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

Reciting from rote seems a terrible way to honor the gods and a precise killing of the power of the words.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

I do not want to credit my life to spells and rituals, cushioning me from the consequences of living.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

Pilgrims were people glad to take off their clothing, which was on fire.

Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

The merit of 's 'Essay Concerning Human Understanding' is its adequacy, and not its consistency. . . He should have widened the title of his book into 'An Essay Concerning Experience.

Process and Reality

The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.

The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs