Johannes Scotus Eriugena famous quotes

Last updated: Jul 22, 2024

  • If... if... We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained outburst in 1917, and then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! ........... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.

  • All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us.

  • To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.

  • Once you start believing that something is possible, you start to let it in to your awareness and it starts to become true to you.

  • When they feel invisible, it's easy for them to leave.

  • You have to have something that is forever, something that is invisible.

  • Appearances often are deceiving.

  • Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

  • I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.

  • By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.