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The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find read more
The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof.
Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, read more
Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell. - Tremendous Trifles.
My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he read more
If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking -- one sport you shouldn't have to reserve a time and a court for.
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.
To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
To linger in the observation of things other than the self implies a profound conviction of their worth. - My read more
To linger in the observation of things other than the self implies a profound conviction of their worth. - My Friends the Senses.
