“A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it. Partaking of the universal community of minds, it infiltrates, grafts itself on to, the mind of him who it refutes, among other contiguous ideas, with the aid of which, counter-attacking, he complements and corrects it; so that the final verdict is always to some extent the work of both parties to a discussion.” MenMindIdeasCommunityPowerfulPartyHe ManUniversalFinalsCommunicateAidsDiscussionAttackingComplementVerdict Book:Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove Source: Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove
“Over the first three rounds you're playing the course. In the final round, if you're in contention, you're playing the man.” IfsMenFirstsThreeCoursesHe ManGolfFinalsRoundsContention Author:Jack Nicklaus
“Stupid women, and all are stupid, think the first winning of the man the final victory. Then they settle down and grow fat, and stale, and dead, and heartbroken. Alas, they are so stupid. But you, little infant-woman with your first victory, you must make your love-life an unending chain of victories. Each day you must win your man again. And when you have won the last victory, when you can find no more to win, then ends love. Finis is written, and your man wanders in strange gardens.” ThinkingMenFirstsLittlesEndsLastsWinningGrowsWrittenStupidStrangeHe ManVictoryGardenDown AndFinalsFatsWanderChainsSettlingEach DayLove LifeAlasInfantHeartbrokenStaleSettling DownUnending Book:The Valley of the Moon: Classic American Literature Source: The Valley of the Moon: Classic American Literature
“But pure wit is akin to Puritanism; to the perfect and painful consciousness of the final fact in the universe. Very briefly, the man who sees the consistency in things is a wit - and a Calvinist. The man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist - and a Catholic.” MenFactsUniversePerfectConsciousnessHe ManPureCatholicFinalsPainfulWitConsistencyHumoristsInconsistencyPuritanism Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton