“We have not chosen this time. We cannot help it if we are born as men of the early winter of full Civilization, instead of on the golden summit of a ripe Culture, in a Phidias or a Mozart time. Everything depends on our seeing our own position, our destiny, clearly, on our realizing that though we may lie to ourselves about it, we cannot evade it. He who does not acknowledge this in his heart, ceases to be counted among the men of his generation, and remains either a simpleton, a charlatan, or a pedant.” IfsMenHeartMayDoeHelpingLyingCultureRealizingBornDestinySeeingGenerationsPositionHe ManDependsCivilizationRemainsWinterCeaseChosenGoldenAcknowledgeOur DestinySummitRipeCharlatansPedantsSimpletonsPhidias Book:Form and actuality Source: Form and actuality
“A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant.” MenMayLife IsQualityHe ManTinyChosenQuantityInsignificantBlink Of An Eye Book:The Chosen Source: The Chosen
“I must be the mate of the man I had chosen; and if he would not come to my level, I must go to his.” IfsMenReadingWomenLevelsMarriageHe ManChosenMates Author:Jane Swisshelm
“We set up a certain aim, and put ourselves of our own will into the power of a certain current. Once having done that, we find ourselves committed to usages and customs which we had not before fully known, but from which we cannot depart without giving up the end which we have chosen. But we have no right, therefore, to claim that we are under the yoke of necessity. We might as well say that the man whom we see struggling vainly in the current of Niagara could not have helped jumping in.” MenGivingWellsEndsDoneMightCertainFreedomKnownStruggleHe ManGiving UpClaimsAimCurrentsCommittedChosenCustomsJumpingUsageYokeNiagaraJumping In Author:Anna Brackett
“A mood of constructive criticism being upon me, I propose forthwith that the method of choosing legislators now prevailing in the United States be abandoned and that the method used in choosing juries be substituted. That is to say, I propose that the men who make our laws be chosen by chance and against will of all the rest of us, as now.” MenStatesLawUsedChanceUnitedUnited StatesHe ManCriticismMethodMoodChosenAbandonedConstructiveProposeJuryLegislatorsPrevailingConstructive Criticism Author:H. L. Mencken
“The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.” MenGivingArtChoicesDifficultHe ManHighestCapableArt IsChosen Author:Napoleon Bonaparte