“The Americans are mostly engaged in trade and plantations. Their chief object is to make money.”
Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 97
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“Power is an intoxicating draught; the more a man has, the more he desires.”
“Good men are never concerned in revolutions, because they will not go the lengths.”
“Thought and reason, unless matched by feelings, are empty, delusive things.”
“Every man's death is, literally, the end of a world if he dies without hope.”
“Why are so many people ashamed of having intelligence and using it?”
“If you are an intellectual, your best course is to relax and enjoy it.”
“There is no democracy in the world of intellect, and no democracy of taste.”
“Modern man is a debtor, or he is nothing, and money becomes more and more illusory.”
“When religion abandons poetic utterance, it cuts its own throat.”
“It seems to me that most of us get all the adventure we are capable of digesting.”
“Triviality about the past leads certainly toward a trivial future.”
“Without language, how can we tell anyone what we feel, or what we think?”
“We mistrust anything that too strongly challenges our ideal of mediocrity.”
“Childhood at its best is a form of slavery tempered by affection.”
“I'm never afraid. But in my case it's nothing to be proud of.”