Quotes of: Essays Keyword

Having had a transcendental experience as a teenager with the assistance of a hallucinogen, Madeline remains certain that the universe is too vast and beautiful to bother with gods.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

There are a few things I've learned over the years. One is that time doesn't stop for anyone; hurdling forward and onward, unstoppable and catastrophic.

Perdida: Essays to Be Read While Intoxicated

Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't.

Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports

It seems sometimes that people take a deliberately myopic and fill their eyes with things seen microscopically in order not to see macrosopically.

Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.

Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

He may really have been enjoying an embryonic composition of his own stimulated by mere hints in the book.

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series - the plot, as we call it - is only really a new whereby to catch something else.

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as a memoir. They're essays; they're not an autobiography.

Sloane Crosley

They who suspect a Mephistophiles, or sneering, satirical devil, under all, have not learned the secret of true humor, which sympathizes with gods themselves, in view of their grotesque, half-finished creatures.

Collected Essays and Poems

It takes courage to do aid work but it takes bravery to put your thoughts and experiences out in front of the world.

Chasing Misery: an anthology of essays by women in humanitarian responses

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

Counsels and Maxims (The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer)

... true evil needs no reason to exist, it simply is and feeds upon itself.

A Compendium of Essays: Purcell, Hogarth and Handel, Beethoven, Liszt, Debussy, and Andrew Lloyd Webber

I tell you, you will not see the new beauty and the truth, until you make up your minds to spit.

Essays On Art, 1915 1933

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

An Essay on Criticism

Handling and use by able minds give value to a language, not so much by innovating as by filling it out with more vigorous and varied services, by stretching and bending it.

The Essays of Montaigne - Complete

It is now an easy matter to spell out the ethic of a truth: 'Do all that you can to persevere in that which exceeds you perseverance. Persevere in the interruption. Seize in your being that which has seized and broken you.

Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil

It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated.

An Essay on the Restoration of Property

Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.

The Essays: A Selection

[M]an is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Liberty is not an Idea belonging to Volition, or preferring; but to the Person having the Power of doing, or forbearing to do, according as the Mind shall chuse or direct.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding