Schopenhauer, talent vis-a-vis genius

Happiness is

The Greatest Glory of a Building

silencing mankind

To love at all is to be vulnerable…

beauty has many meanings

Don’t expect too much out of human beings.

The cure is often worse than the disease

Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort

No one ever believes that the Bible means what it says…

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder or the three ‘gazes’ in the Louvre

 

William Morris, useful or beautiful

 

only time can give us back the future

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast

wonder is the first of all the passions

life is too short

if you can’t read all your books, at least fondle them

experience of physical surroundings – place matters

object of true education

Tell all the truth, but tell it slant

metaphors rearrange the furniture of the mind

Tempted at the point of your greatest strength

Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost

solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition

noise inverse proportion to mentality

need to complain

Kierkegaard: to find the idea for which I can live and die

ancient witness vis-a-vis private judgment

seek knowledge in order to serve and edify others

extreme iconoclasm belongs to the restoration of meaning

necessity is the mother of invention

Memory: that we might have roses in December

everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise

Joyce: “yes i said yes i will yes”

Lost is time not spent in loving

our identity is defined in dialogue

The world is full of wild things… stupid ones too

fallibilism

we are here on earth

Mae West “…but I drifted”

contemplation

count him rich who is wise

In every piece of memory there lies a bit of salvation

note: Marcel never bites the scalloped “petites madeleines” ―
the “remembrance of things past” is triggered by the crumbs.

“to die and dare rebirth”

unvisited tombs

a play is fiction, & fiction is fact distorted into truth

Conversation doesn’t just reshuffle the cards

On Visiting Bookshops

Prayer: God more often exercises justice than power

perfectionism