“Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.”
Experience“The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.”
Beauty“Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.”
Experience“It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.”
Art“An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.”
Art“Music is essentially useless, as is life.”
Music“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.”
History“The family is one of nature's masterpieces.”
Family“I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.”
Science“The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.”
Art“It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.”
Truth“Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.”
Religion“The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.”
Truth“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“Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots.”
Friendship“Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.”
Money“Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.”
Music“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“Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.”
Peace“Wisdom comes by disillusionment.”
Wisdom“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.”
Education“Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.”
Women