“Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them.” LifeLooksMeanSeemsCertainSecretHigherClaimsCherishSatisfyingNurseVulgarCommonplace Book:Maxims and Reflections Source: Maxims and Reflections
“We all end up living secret lives. We create what we are willing to admire and admiring what we shouldn't confess to the secret ofour own sin, our own insufficiency, our own sadness. We all end up taking our secrets into the world and handing them over to strangers, only to realize it's often too late to claim them back. The very nature of time passing is sad beyond words. Memories mean they're gone.” WorldMeanEndsTimeRealizingMemoriesSinSecretGoneSadnessWillingLateClaimsStrangerPassingAdmirePassingsToo LateTime PassingTime PassesSecret LifeAdmiringInsufficiency Author:Alexander Theroux
“I like poems that immediately claim my attention, instead of taking my attention for granted. At first read, I want to feel compelled to pick up the poem again; I want to be curious about its byways and secret corners.” WantFeelsFirstsSecretAttentionPicksClaimsCornersCuriousGrantedCompelled Author:James Arthur
“Science ... looks skeptically at all claims to knowledge, old and new. It teaches not blind obedience to those in authority but to vigorous debate, and in many respects that's the secret of its success.” LooksSecretTeachAuthorityClaimsBlindDebateObedienceVigorousOld And NewBlind Obedience Author:Carl Sagan
“[N]othing is less reliable than unchecked claims from political officials that their secret conduct is justified by National Security Threats and the desire to Keep Us Safe.” PoliticalDesireSecretSecuritySafeClaimsThreatOfficialsNational SecurityJustified Author:Glenn Greenwald