I am Constantly afraid, but it's a big driving force in my life. I'm more likely to try and tackle a fear than let it control me.
Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?
Filing is concerned with the past; anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future.
The case against censoring anything is absolute:. . . nothing that could be censored can be so bad in its effects, in the long run, as censorship itself.
[On the English climate:] People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.
From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
It beats me how Freud could say "What do women want?" as if we all must want the same thing.
When was the last time you heard an insightful, inspiring piece of oratory from an Australian political leader, an appeal to what is pure and true within humanity: a statement of belief backed by ideas for change betterment, a call to those immutable values wherein lie the potential greatness of people individually and collectively? Such exhortation, such leadership is lamentably scarce.
Rock. . . is the expression of elemental passions. . . In the ecstasy of having all their defenses torn down, the participants sink, as it were, beneath the elemental force of the universe.
Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
I feel like most of the objects coming through the ports are pretty useless. It sort of speaks to this larger point of how much we're actually taking in versus how much we really need.