Finding a new ethics or esthetics, as Dr. Douglass asks, will not put us in a state of grace. Existence is not given meaning by importing it into a revelation from the outside. The meaning is —there, in more closely contacting the actual situation,...
For he did not, he would have said, care for women; he never felt at home or at ease with them; and that monstrous creature beginning to be talked about, the New Woman of the nineties, filled him with horror. He was a quiet, conventional person, and ...
Seeking more information, I walked through the market listening to the gossip and discovered that our new general, the man sent to quell the unrest in the east, was the second son of a provincial tax collector whose only claims to recognition were th...
Suddenly I came out of my thoughts to notice everything around me again-the catkins on the willows, the lapping of the water, the leafy patterns of the shadows across the path. And then myself, walking with the alignment that only comes after miles, ...
Something wonderful begins to happen with the simple realization that life, like an automobile, is driven from the inside out, not the other way around. As you focus more on becoming more peaceful with where you are, rather than focusing on where you...
Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The twenty-first century will reverse this order. It will be more glorious to fight against ignorance than to die on the field of battl...
This recognition of the truth we get in the artist’s work comes to us as a revelation of new truth. I want to be clear about that. I am not referring to the sort of patronizing recognition we give a writer by nodding our heads and observing, “Yes...
I'm not trying to be the new anybody.
The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
All news is an exaggeration of life.
I'd love to do some new plays.
I've always liked new writing.
I'm a progressive. The progression has to be manifested in a new direction in policies and legislation.
Every day brings new choices.
Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary.
Every sunrise is a new hope.
I want to democratize business news.
When they're good, I like working with new actors.
No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.
Let's have some new cliches.
Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol.
