“We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.”
Future“When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different.”
Men“We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.”
Future“A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.”
Happiness“The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.”
Art“Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.”
Music“For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.”
Death“To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.”
Patriotism“Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.”
Life“The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.”
Truth“The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age.”
Age“The family is one of nature's masterpieces.”
Family“Music is essentially useless, as is life.”
Music“Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.”
Best“It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.”
Art“Only the dead have seen the end of the war.”
War“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.”
History“Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.”
Intelligence“One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”
Friendship“Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.”
Happiness“Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.”
Knowledge“Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.”
Courage