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“We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.”
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“Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn't exist' - 'The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills' - 'Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me' - 'Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from. Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives”
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“The path which we believe in is the path of love; it has all the goodness of God in it-calmness and kindness.”
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“A chain of iron is less difficult to break than a chain of flowers.”
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“No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream--alone.”
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“Poor comfort all comfort: once what the mouse had spared Was enough, was delight, there where the heart was at home”
Source : Ruth Pitter (1969). “Collected poems”
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“William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. "In the time of your life--live!" That time is short and it doesn't return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.”
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“Passion is more important than justice.”
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“From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosophers themselves we seem always able to notice some deep internal correspondence between the man and his philosophy. Are our philosophies, then, merely the inevitable outcome of the body of fate and personal circumstance that is thrust upon each of us? Or are these beliefs the means by which we freely create ourselves as the persons we become? Here, at the very outset, the question of freedom already hovers in the background.”
Source : William Barrett (1978). “The illusion of technique: a search for meaning in a technological civilization”, Anchor Books
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“We want to encourage those who are able to work, no question.”
