The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived.
~ Confucius
Monthly Archives: July 2009
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Knowing others is intelligence, knowing yourself is true wisdom.
~ Lao Zi
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It wasn’t the New World that mattered … Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It’s life that matters, nothing but life — the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer. I agree with Kant and Schopenhauer and Plato and Spinoza and that is quite enough to be called a philosophy. But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.
~ Gertrude Stein
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By temperament I’m a vagabond and a tramp.
~ William Faulkner
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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
~ Lewis Mumford
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