“Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. Evening is like old age: we are languid, talkative, silly. Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.” LooksLittlesAgeCertainSleepMorningYouthBirthWasteLateSacredSillyOld AgeEveningRisingLook UpEach DayOccupationWakingUnworthyTalkativeQuintessenceRest And Sleep Book:Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer Source: Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer
“Vulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable and explained. It is like a system of bridges built over chasms. One can travel boldly ahead over these bridges, ignoring the chasms. It is forbidden to look down into them; but that, alas, does not alter the fact that they exist.” GivingLooksDoeFactsFeelingsBirthBuiltBridgesForbiddenAlasChasms Author:Czeslaw Milosz
“If faith, then new birth; if new birth, then sonship; if sonship, then "an heir of God, and a joint-heir with Christ." But if you have not got your foot upon the lowest round of the ladder, you will never come within sight of the blessed face of Him who stands at the top of it, and who looks down to you at this moment, saying to you, "My child, wilt thou not at this time cry unto me, 'Abba, Father?” IfsLooksChildrenMomentsFacesFatherChristFeetCryBirthSightBlessedRoundsMy ChildrenLowestLaddersJointsHeirsAbbaAbba Father Book:Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester Source: Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester
“Rage properly channeled can definitely give birth to good even great theater. Disgust, a more passive and distancing emotion, is far less likely to. Would you rush to a play called Look Back in Queasiness?” GivingLooksPlayEmotionBirthTheaterRageDisgustingPassive Author:Ben Brantley