June 2011
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“Loyalty implies loyalty in misfortune; and when a soldier has accepted any...”
– G.K. Chesterton in All Things Considered (via gkchestertonquote)
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want...”
– Albert Einstein (via jeffreyoverstreet)
Without
settledthingsstrange:
Without a friend To wend life’s way Life would clearly Grow quite dreary.
Selected quotations from Part Eight of "Anna...
“As a weapon I may be of some use. But as a man, I’m a wreck.”
“To Agafea Mihalovna, to the nurse, to his grandfather, to his father even, Mitya was a living being, requiring only material care, but for his mother he had long been a mortal being, with whom there had been a whole series of spiritual relations already.”
“Ever since, by his beloved...
Selected quotations from Part Seven of "Anna...
“The more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.”
“She was less dazzling in reality, but, on the other hand, there was something fresh and seductive in the living woman which was not in the portrait.”
“In the fact of not lying they see poetry.”
“Here people understood that a man is in duty bound to live for himself, as every man of culture...
Selected quotations from Part Six of "Anna...
“‘He’s too pure, too exalted a nature.’/’Why would this lower him, then?’/’No, but he’s used to a spiritual life that he can’t reconcile himself with actual fact, and Varenka is after all fact.’”
“Her disbelief in his self-dissatisfaction delighted him.”
“‘In my heart I really care for nothing whatever but...
Selected quotations from Part Five of "Anna...
“People who can do nothing else ought to rear people while the rest work for their happiness and enlightenment.”
“Levin had not the heart to disillusion him of the notion that there could be something delightful apart from her, and so said nothing.”
“In reality, those who in Vronsky’s opinion had the “proper” view had no sort of view at all, but...
Selected quotations from Part Four of "Anna...
“She was, every time she saw him, making the picture of him in her imagination (incomparably superior, impossible in reality) fit with him as he really was.”
“He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.”
Anna: “He’s not a man, he’s an official machine....
Selected quotations from Part Three of "Anna...
“To Konstantin Levin the country was good first because it afforded a field of labor, of the usefulness of which there could be no doubt. To Sergey Ivanovitch the country was particularly goo, because there it was possible and fitting to do nothing.”
“Konstantin was silent. He felt himself vanquished on all sides, but he felt at the same time that what he wanted to say was...
Selected quotations from Part Two of "Anna...
“‘Nothing’s amusing that isn’t spiteful’”…“‘Everything clever is so stale.’”
“‘That only shows you have no heart,’ she said. But her eyes said that she knew he had a heart, and that was why she was afraid of him.”
“Alexey Alexandrovitch was not jealous. Jealousy according to his notions was an insult...
Selected quotations from Part One of "Anna...
Opening line: ”Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
“There was no solution, but that universal which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insoluble. That answer is: one must live in the needs of the day —that is forget oneself. To forget himself in sleep was impossible now, at least till night-time; he could...
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"Of Travel", from Book V of Rousseau's "Emile"
“The misuse of books is the death of sound learning….Too much much reading only produces a pretentious ignoramus.”
“I maintain that it is beyond dispute that any one who has only seen one nation does not know men; he only knows those men among who he has lived….”He who has compared a dozen nations knows men, just as he who has compared a dozen Frenchmen knows...
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Third Part of Selected Quotations from Rousseau's...
“Works on education are crammed with wordy and unnecessary accounts of the imaginary duties of children; but there is not a word about the most important and most important and most difficult part of their education, the crisis which forms the bridge between the child and the man.”
“You offer shelter to benighted travelers, but a lover does not sleep in the house of his...
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Second Part of Selected Quotations from Rousseau's...
“If a young girl has good taste and a contempt for fashion, give her a few yards of ribbon, muslin, and gauze, and a handful of flowers, without any diamonds, fringes, or lace, and she will make herself a dress a hundredfold more becoming than all the smart clothes of La Duchapt.”
“Christianity, by exaggerating every duty, has made our duties impracticable and useless; by...
First Part of Selected Quotations from Rousseau's...
“A perfect man and a perfect woman should no more be alike in mind than in face, and perfection admits of neither less nor more.”
“The consequences of sex are wholly unlike for man and woman. The male is only a male every now and again, the female is always a female, or at least all her youth.”
“When she gives her husband children who are not his own, she is false...
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Second Part of Selected Quotations from Rousseau's...
“The seed of virtue is hard to grow; and a long period of preparation is required before it will take root.”
“Small minds have a mania for reasoning. Strong souls speak a different language, and it is by this language than men are persuaded and driven to action.”
“Clothe your reason with a body, if you would make it felt.”
“True worth is always...
Selected Quotations from the Creed of the Savoyard...
“It is because I am active when I judge, because the operation of comparison is at fault; because my understanding, which judges of relations is at fault; because my understanding, which judges of relation, mingles its errors with the truth of sensations, which only reveal to me things.”
“With the help of dice Descartes made heaven and earth; but he could not set his dice in...
“It is true that I believe in fairy-tales— in the sense that I marvel so much at...”
– G.K. Chesterton in Outline of Sanity (via gkchestertonquote)
Selected Quotations from the Creed of the Savoyard...
“Consult your own heart while I speak; that is all I ask.”
“Conscience, they tell us, is the creature of prejudice, but I know from experience that conscience persists in following the order of nature in spite of all the laws of man.”
“There is nothing which so maintains the habit of thinking as being better pleased with oneself than with one’s lot.”
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Third Part of Selected Quotations from Rousseau's...
“Reason and self-love compel us to love mankind even more than our neighbor.”
“once a thinker, always a thinker.”
“Nothing is better fitted to make one wise than the sight of follies we do not share.”
“The Incomprehensible embraces all, he gives its motion to the earth, and shapes the system of all creatures, but our eyes cannot see him nor can our...
Second Part of Selected Quotations from Rousseau's...
“Melancholy is friend of pleasures.”
“The man of the world almost always wears a mask. He is scarcely ever himself, and is almost a stranger to himself; he is ill at ease when he is forced into his own company. Not what he is, but what he seems, is all he cares for.”
“We should learn to judge the feelings of the heart by external signs.”
“So long as...
First Part of Selected Quotations from Rousseau's...
“How swiftly life passes here below! The first quarter of it is gone before we know how to use it, the last quarter finds us incapable of enjoying life below.”
“Our passions are the chief means of self-preservation; to try to destroy them is therefore as absurd as it is useless.”
“Our natural passions are very limited; they are the instruments of our liberty, they...
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Selected Quotations from Rousseau's "Emile": Book...
“The small store which really contributes to our welfare alone deserves the study of a wise man, and therefore of a child whom one would have wise.”
“Let us therefore omit from our early studies such knowledge as has no natural attraction for us and confine ourselves to such things as instinct impels us to study.”
“If you ever substitute authority for reason he will...
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Fifth Part of Selected Quotations from Rousseau's...
“It is the habit of the mind, not of the hands, that needs watching.”
“The only moral lesson which is suited for a child is this: ‘Never hurt anybody.”
“The noblest virtues are negative.”
“If you want to say something clever, you have only to talk long enough.”
“One moment you would call him a genius, another a fool. You would be...
Fourth Part of Selected Quotations from Rousseau's...
“Every means has been tried except one, the very one which might succeed — well-regulated liberty.”
“Let us lay it down as an incontrovertible rule that the first impulses of nature are always right; there is no original sin the human heart.”
“I would rather fall into paradox than into prejudice.”
“Goodness is only possible when enlightened by...
Third Part of Selected Quotations from Rousseau's...
“For my own part, I would rather Emile be rude rather than haughty, that he should say, ‘Do this’ as a request, rather than ‘Please’ as a command.”
“Too much bodily prosperity corrupts the morals.”
“Do you know the surest way to make your child miserable? Let him have everything he wants;…..He will want all that he sets eyes on, and...
Second Part of Selected Quotations from Rousseau's...
“Whatever you do, your actual authority can never extend beyond your own powers. As soon as you are obliged to see with another’s eyes you must will what he wills.”
“There is only one man who gets his own way—he who can get it single-handed; therefore freedom, not power, is the greatest good. That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does...
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First Part of Selected Quotations from Rousseau's...
“Indeed it is not the blow but the fear of it that distresses us when we are hurt.”
“”To bear pain is his [the student’s] first and most useful lesson.”
“Absolute good and evil are unknown to us. In this life they are blended together.”
“What do you mean when when you say ‘Man is weak’? The term weak implies a relation,...
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Second Part of Selected Quotations from Rousseau's...
“If we thought ourselves invulnerable, we should know no fear. The poet armed Achilles against danger and so robbed him of the merit of courage.”
“…the custom of the ancients, who talked less, but acted more wisely than we.”
“If once he [the student] thinks there are grown-up people with no more sense than children the authority of age is destroyed and his...
First Section of Selected Quotations from...
Opening line: “God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil.”
“We lament the helplessness of infancy; we fail to perceive that the race would have perished had not man begun by being a child.”
“The inner growth of our organs and faculties is the education of nature, the use we learn to make of this growth is the education of men, what we...
Selected Quotations from Rousseau's "Emile": The...
“I consider that public attention requires to be directed to this subject[education], and even if my own ideas are mistaken, my time will not have been wasted if I stir up others to form right ideas.”
“The wisest writers devote themselves to what a man ought to know, without asking what a child is capable of learning.”
“But is it within my power to furnish myself...
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He does not Love like we love- From the Symposium, spoken by Alcibades regarding Socrates. The wise man, as the proverb says, is late for a fray, but not for a feast. - From Gorgias, spoken by Callicles “A man may often be sworn down by a multitude of false witnesses who have a great air of respectability”- From Gorgias, spoken by Socrates. “Read not the Times; read the...
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– http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/nightclub/
“Dancing Toward Bethlehem
by Billy Collins
If there is only enough time in...”
– http://www.sophisticateddorkiness.com/2009/04/billy-collins-dancing-toward-bethlehem/
““Vade Mecum”
I want the scissors to be sharp
and the table...”
– http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/93863
“Questions About Angels
BY BILLY COLLINS
Of all the questions you might want to...”
– http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/176044
“The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.”
– Plato (via settledthingsstrange)
“Spring was slow in unfolding. For the last few weeks it had been steadily fine...”
– Anna Karenina, Count Leo Tolstoy, trans. Constance Garnett 