“The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living.”
Short Quotes · Page 63
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“The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic.”
“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.”
“The reader cannot create; that has been done for him by the author.”
“When religion abandons poetic utterance, it cuts its own throat.”
“Triviality about the past leads certainly toward a trivial future.”
“Childhood at its best is a form of slavery tempered by affection.”
“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”
“I'm never afraid. But in my case it's nothing to be proud of.”
“It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life.”
“It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.”