Life and Existence

Time present and time past

Time present and time past

Oh may I join the choir invisible

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

‘Character’ says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms—‘character is destiny.’

‘Character’ says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms—‘character is destiny.’

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity; perhaps a tragic failure which found no sacred poet and sank unwept into oblivion.

Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity; perhaps a tragic failure which found no sacred poet and sank unwept into oblivion.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

The distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion, however persistent.

The distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion, however persistent.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility … The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle.

I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

But I can’t think for you

Ah, but I was so much older then,

Ah, but I was so much older then,