A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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Create Personalise WishesThe Platonic idealist is the man
The Platonic idealist is the man by nature so wedded to perfection that he sees in everything not the reality but the faultless ideal which the reality misses and suggests
23History is a pack of lies about…
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there. . . . History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten
22To feel beauty is a better thing than…
To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be.
42Nothing is really so poor…
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
24There is wisdom in turning as often…
There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.
22We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes…
We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.
36The muffled syllables that Nature speaks…
The muffled syllables that Nature speaks
Fill us with deeper longing for her word;
She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks,
She makes a sweeter music than is heard.
Advertising is the modern substitute…
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
23love make us poets…
We must welcome the future…
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
19There is no cure for birth…
Beauty as we feel it is….
There are books in which the footnotes…
There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader’s hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books.
20To be happy you must have taken the measure…
To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
31The world is not respectable….
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
33Both optimists and pessimists…
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
17You use a glass mirror…
Patriotism is, fundamentally…
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it….
18A Native American elder once described his…
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.
19The liar’s punishment is…
The liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
19People are always blaming their circumstances…
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.
20When two people are under the influence…
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
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