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It is the happy man who does the useless things; the sick man is not strong enough to be idle.
“The idea that real and serous learning is something practiced only by a small elite is stubborn and hard to displace.”
― Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
― Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
“for where the religions spirit is not tolerated, where there is no room for poetry and art, where love and death are robbed of all significant effect and reduced to the level of a banality, philosophy will never prosper.”
― Leisure: The Basis of Culture
― Leisure: The Basis of Culture
“read and inquire as a free adult is to take on the awesome responsibility of allowing oneself to be changed.”
― Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
― Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
“To obtain the gift of holiness is the work of a life.”
― Parochial and Plain Sermons
― Parochial and Plain Sermons
“Reprimands will not bring the waves into line. Anger will not alter the wind. Sadness will not bring back the Gulf Stream. The greatest freedom allotted to any human being is the freedom to choose one's attitude. Whatever the weather, it is my weather, and I must do my best to enjoy it.”
― A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean
― A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean
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