Lionel Ferbos quotes

Lionel Ferbos quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Once you have your practice and you have your mechanics, you must be able to go out there and trust your mechanics.”
“All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.”
“The best introductory guide to forestry practices and the issues surrounding the preservation of American forests.”
“No one can escape stress, but you can learn to cope with it. Practice positive thinking. . . seize control in small ways.”
“In ancient times, any man rising up above the common people tried to shape his life according to his principles; it is no longer like than now; it is (because) for the ancients, moral was a principle of inner life, whereas in our days, most of the time one is content to adhere to an official moral, that we recognize in theory, but that one does not care to put into practice.”
“You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
“Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.”
“I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.”

Source : Last Poems no. 12, l. 17 (1922)
“Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasnâ€™t easy. I didnâ€™t ask for this. I didnâ€™t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.”
“Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.”

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