Robert Leckie famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It was one thing to hide away from the world. It was quite another to discover the world didn't miss you when you were gone.
We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
When I'm gone, you'll be sitting in a cafe and say, "Do you remember Agnes?"
The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.
Joy and growth come from following our deepest impulses, however foolish they may seem to some, or dangerous, and even though the apparent outcome may be defeat.
If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster
While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.
I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz said I have never known Allah May He be exalted except through the coincidence in Him of the opposites. 'He is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden.'
All history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search for a durable scale of values.

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