Quotes About Things

Our lives are not the measure of all things: consider sublime places for a reminder of human insignificance and frailty.

Economics- a story of pain, teaching us a lot of complicated but sound reasons why a great many nice things aren't possible.

It's like the tragedy of the whole world in a little glass,' she said. 'Great things are all smashed to pulp, and none of us who are left have the spirit to carry on.

A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.

I believe that things should be used, even rare and valuable things, otherwise they lose their essential nature. That's far worse than being broken.

She was an object lesson on the essential luck, whatever hardships may come their way, of those born able to make things.

I watched too, with that sort of lonely delight--the one shadow upon it being that it is so lonely--with which all one's life one is accustomed to watch beautiful and vanishing things.

faith perishes if it is walled in, or confined. If it is anywhere, it must be everywhere, like God himself: if God is in your life, he is in all things, for he is God.

To study the Buddha Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things. When actualized by myriad things, your body and mind as well as the bodies and minds of others drop away. No trace of enlightenment remains, and this no-trace continues endlessly.

I say its realism, bearing on mind Harold Rosenbergs wicked remark that realism is one of fifty-seven varieties of decoration. What about the term experimental, which is often applied to your work? Its not quite a hostile remark, but it does contain within it the notion of the failed experiment. Something like Bone Bubbles was, yes, an experiment and although I wouldnt suggest it was wholly successful, I thought it worth publishing. Its something I do along with a number of other things.

There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.

A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.

I'm always interested in the unexpected and know that things, especially in show business, but in life generally, are inevitably fleeting to one extent.

Sometimes things in life happen that allow us to understand our priorities very clearly. Ultimately you can see those as gifts.

Nina, I have tried to be patient. I have tried to help when things go wrong and you buy a book and things go well and you buy a book and it rains so you bring home some books and it's sunny so you get some books. But .

This is another way in which he is an admirable person. If he notices something is broken, he will try to fix it. He won't just think about how unbearable it is that things keep breaking, that you can never fucking outrun entropy.

My brethren, the reason why you have not got contentment in the things of the world is not because you have not got enough of them-that is not the reason-but the reason is, because they are not things proportionable to that immortal soul of yours that is capable of God himself.

Thought about the world is prior to thought about how to change the world. Accordingly, knowing-that is prior to knowing-how. Descartes was right and Ryle was wrong. Why, after all these years, does one still have to say these things?

But, if life is just that, just being reasonable, then there is nothing in it--nothing worthwhile. So, the yearning that we have to keep dead things living--or to make unreasonable things reasonable. That is why a person should live.

The university grounds are really beautiful. Universities always try that bullshit. They want you to think wonderful things are going on inside of them because the grounds are beautiful. In general, it is good to be suspicious of monetary displays. Large swaths of bright green well-watered grass—a thing like that is a huge lie.

The difference between being and having is not essentially that between East and West. The difference is rather between a society centered around persons and one centered around things.

Where the roots of Western culture … considered the aim of life the perfection of man, modern man is concerned with the perfection of things, and the knowledge of how to make them.

Your subservience makes me uncomfortable." That pissed me off. "Then you shouldn't pay people to do things for you. End of story.

I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.