One does not argue about The Wind in the Willows.
The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.
Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.
Freedom can reside only in a point of view, a way of looking upon the system of necessity. Surely this is the one freedom that we may attain to: not to be released from physical reality, but to understand reality and ourselves as part of it, and so be reconciled to what we are.
Creativity is not enough. . . the skill of the true artist is to show the real in the light of the ideal and so transfigure it.
The relation of the soul to the body is like that of a house to its bricks. The soul is a principle of organisation, which governs the flesh and endows it with meaning. It is no more separable from the flesh than is the house from its bricks, even if the soul may survive the gradual replacement of every bodily part.
Marriage does not exist for the benefit of the present generation but for the benefit of the next
A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood.
The United States has every intention of continuing to do the kind of reconnaissance and surveillance work we have done for decades, well known to everyone, that is essential to protect our national security, and frankly, the security of our friends in various regions of the world. It is part of our collection system.
Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.
There's something going on and it's bad. And I'm saying we have to get to the bottom of it.