“I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 143 of 303
“Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home.”
“Why should I clutter my mind with general information when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I need?”
“I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.”
“Virtue is not a chemical product...it is a historic product, like language and literature; and this means that if we cease to care about it, cease to cultivate it, cease to transmit its funded values, a large part of it will become meaningless, like a dead language to which we have lost the key.”
“With a lot of actors, you've got to chip through the surface to see who the real person is.”
“All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.”
“It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it.”
“Half of life is up - the other half is dealing with it.”
“Whether I will be remembered at all, I really don't get to choose, unless I shoot someone famous. It's not really anything I have much control over.”
“I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.”
“I am never indifferent, and never pretend to be, to what people say or think of my books. They are my children, and I like to have them liked.”
“Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.”
“It is the heart and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain.”
“What shall I say to you? What can I say Better than silence is?”
“Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.”
“You have to own your days and name them, each one of them, every one of them, or else the years go right by and none of them belong to you.”
“People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.”
“A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one.”
“There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.”