Quotes of: Jane Keyword

As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone.

Stanley Schmidt

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.

On Aggression

Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.

On Aggression

I don't fear death--I fear dying before I've read Dickens end to end.

All Roads Lead to Austen: A Yearlong Journey with Jane

A story conducted by the time of a clock and calendars alone would be a story not of human beings but of mechanical toys.

Jane Austen And Her Art

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Jane Eyre

Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words.

Jane Eyre

care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

Jane Eyre

Human life and human labour were near. I must struggle on: strive to live and bend to toil like the rest.

Jane Eyre

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

Jane Eyre

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

Jane Eyre

Little girl, a memory without blot or contamination must be an exquisite treasure-an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment:is it not?

Jane Eyre

Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of fear.

Jane Eyre

Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is around us, for it is everywhere.

Jane Eyre

I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy

Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Persuasion

Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

Sudden Death

the more aware they become,however vaugely,of ambitions & of threats which transcend their immediate locales, the more trapped they seem to feel.

The Sociological Imagination

P6-the sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within sociey.

The Sociological Imagination

... until it had acquired the strength to create in my mind a fresh example of absolute, unproductive beauty...

Swann's Way

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

Ruth Benedict

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

Ruth Benedict