It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.
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I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose read more
I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.
Those who consciousness is unified abandon all attachment to the results of action and attain supreme peace. But those whose read more
Those who consciousness is unified abandon all attachment to the results of action and attain supreme peace. But those whose desires are fragmented, who are selfishly attached to the results of their work, are bound in everything they do.
Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it read more
Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another's tears, Till in Heaven the deed appears, Pass it on.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may read more
The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.
