"God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?"

-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#Degrees Quotes #World Quotes #Individual Quotes

“Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged.”
“I think people have a tendency to think of a writer as someone who wants to go take a walk, maybe case a library... I think that's great sometimes but we really treat it like Monday through Friday come in early. You're not late for inspiration. You're working through it no matter what is happening even if you're writing a terrible version.”
“America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.”
“Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions.”
“He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but can- not please himself.”
“Of all the difficulties in a state, the temper of a true government most felicifies and perpetuates it; too sudden alterations distemper it. Had Nero tuned his kingdom as he did his harp, his harmony had been more honorable, and his reign more prosperous.”
“The consequences for human welfare involved in questions about human capital spillovers are simply staggering. Once one starts to think about them, it's hard to think of anything else”
“Well now," the scholar went on, "I'm just an old fuddy-duddy who could use a tan, so you needn't grant my opinion any authority, but I consider the queendom lucky that a handful of Milliners and their children lived incognito among the population during Redd's tyranny.”

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