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“These are not free men in any rational and exact sense of the word.”
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“Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in their attendant circumstances, institutions, and so forth. The difference, therefore, does not operate in every sense, but it does in most of them. Even the most civilized peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other.”
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“Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence; forget it, forgive it, but keep him inexorably at a distance who offered it.”
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“No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.”
Source : "A Reply to Kenneth Tynan: The Playwright's Role". The Observer, June 29, 1958.
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“Even her hair, she thought, running her fingers impatiently through the damp golden brown ringlets that curled romantically around her face. A Botticelli angel, a boy in college once called her, begging her to let it grow. Right! That was all she needed: wild curls cascading down her back like a doomed Shakespearian virgin, or a rock star.”
Source : Naomi Ragen (2001). “The Ghost of Hannah Mendes”, p.70, Macmillan
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“John declared that "Christ received not of the fulness at the first," but that he "continued from grace to grace until he received a fulnesss and thus he was called the Son of God, because he received not of the fulness at the first." Thus is it with us all. We must work out our salvation and exaltation by coming to this earth. Man must be born into mortality and live and die that he may continue in his progress toward eternal life and exaltation.”
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“You got to be ready to die every day - then you got a chance.”
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“I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them and I have done so solely andentirely from an independent study of the plants themselves.”
Source : "Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker O.M., G.C.S.I".
