“Children are overbearing, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars, and dissemblers; they laugh and weep easily, are excessive in their joys and sorrows, and that about the most trifling objects; they bear no pain, but like to inflict it on others; already they are men.” MenChildrenPainJoyLaughingObjectsBearsSorrowPassionateLiarsIdleEnviousEgotisticalFickleTriflingNo PainInquisitiveJoys And SorrowsOverbearingSupercilious Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old dust upon its keys, or from anything that has answered to the need of a man, for pleasure or for work. This kind of silence can speak. Its voice may be melancholy, but it is not always so; for the chair may have been left by a laughing child or the last notes of the piano may have been raucous and gay. Whatever the mood or the circumstance, the essence of its quality may linger in the silence that follows. It is a soundless echo.” MenNeedsKindMayChildrenHas BeensLastsUsedCertainLeftSpeakVoicePleasureSilenceQualityLaughingObjectsKeysCircumstancesGayEssenceNotesMoodDustPianoChairsMelancholyEchoesLifelessEmanate Book:West with the Night Source: West with the Night
“Sometimes a photographer is a passenger, sometimes a person who stays in one place. What he watches changes constantly, but his watching never changes. He doesn't examine like a doctor, defend like a lawyer, analyze like a scholar, support like a priest, make people laugh like a comedian, or intoxicate like a singer. He only watches. This is enough. No, this is all I can do. All a photographer can do is watch. Therefore, a photographer has to watch all the time. He must face the object and make his entire body an eye. A photographer is someone who wagers everything on seeing.” PeoplePersonsI CanSometimesEnoughBodyEyeFacesCan DoWatchesSupportLaughingSeeingObjectsDoctorsPhotographerLawyerSingersComedianPriestsScholarNever ChangeMaking People LaughPassengersWagers Author:Shomei Tomatsu
“Humor is not an unconditional virtue; its moral character depends on its object. To laugh at the contemptible, is a virtue; to laugh at the good, is a hideous vice. Too often, humor is used as the camouflage of moral cowardice.” CharacterUsedMoralLaughingVirtueObjectsDependsVicesCowardiceUnconditionalHideousMoral CharacterCamouflage Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.” ThinkingMayLordLaughingEconomyObjectsForgivingNobleTonightProfessorsAssured Book:My Discovery of England Source: My Discovery of England