“Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give.”— James Baldwin, Autobiographical Notes, 1952Share
“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”— James BaldwinShare
“This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.”— James BaldwinShare
“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.”— William ShakespeareShare
“Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.”— Marcus AureliusShare
“The young have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations.”— AristotleShare
“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”— AristotleShare
“I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and noblest driving force behind scientific research.”— Albert EinsteinShare
“There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them.”— Albert EinsteinShare
