The past has too much knowledge embedded in it, and therefore it's best to forget it and start anew.
We must re-center philosophy within our frame of reference which I think is the way to deal with it.
Since the age of 14, I have littered - excuse me, adorned - the Internet with Taylor Swift analyses.
I really like looking at what's new in my favourite designers' stores, even if I don't buy anything.
Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he loves…and has lost.
How do you know who I am?' Denna grinned, almost laughed. 'To know Richard is to know who Kahlan is.
The appeal of writing a romance was that I'd never written one before the The Thorn and The Blossom.
Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers.
When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.
You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.
Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
The market may never coalesce around one basic design, or even around two or three dominant devices.
You did what your heart told you to do,' Brain complimented. 'It is what leaders, not followers, do.
All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy.
Some acts of faith, I believe, have the power to grant us something infinitely wiser than we imagine
An ex-wife is a woman with a crick in the neck from looking back over her shoulder at her matrimony.
Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.
I grow numb; I grow stiff. How shall I break up this numbness which discredits my sympathetic heart?
Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.
Happily, at forty-six I still feel as experimental and on the verge of getting at the truth as ever.
Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.
I’m not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness.
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.
The news is not a mirror of social conditions, but the report of an aspect that has obtruded itself.
The first principle of a civilized state is that power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
Any two public institutions appealing to the same set of people are apt to appeal in the same terms.
Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.
Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.
It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.
In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.
One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.
Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.
His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed.