Son: Father, you are my father. You sired me. I have sired no one because I left the primordial. I left you, I studied, I suffered, and my visions were pure. Before me, my father, new horizons were opened. Father: Yes, I am your father. I sired you a...
Without entering here into a dissertation upon the historical romance, it may be said that in proper hands it has been and should continue to be one of the most valued and valuable expressions of the literary art. To render and maintain it so, howeve...
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him g...
Dr. Watson's summary list of Sherlock Holmes's strengths and weaknesses: "1. Knowledge of Literature: Nil. 2. Knowledge of Philosophy: Nil. 3. Knowledge of Astronomy: Nil. 4. Knowledge of Politics: Feeble. 5. Knowledge of Botany: Variable. Well up in...
Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our effort, moment after moment, is our way. In an exact sense, the only thing we actually can study in our life is that on whi...
When he told F. of his disgust at the eyelid's movement, he must have been sixteen. When he decided to study medicine, he must have been nineteen; by then, having already signed on to the contract to forget, he no longer remembered what he had said t...
I’ve always like Medieval literature. As a young girl I read mythologies and Norse legends, that sort of thing. I loved . While I was studying at Middle Tennessee State University for doctoral program I came in contact with more ancient literature....
If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.
The point is not how we use a tool, but how it uses us.
Sa më e pabesueshme të jetë një histori, aq më lehtë e besojnë njerëzit atë.
happy is the nation without a history
There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers.
People always fear what they don't understand, Evangeline. History proves that.
Do what you know needs to be done.
We are exactly what our history made us to be.
You can't just wipe away your history.
History wasn't precisely revered for its accuracy at the best of times.
If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.
we may say that History develops, Art stands still
