“God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know - it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.” PeopleKnowsWantWritingTryingYearsHumansHeartHas BeensBookNaturalSecretThousandPreservesContributionThousand YearsHuman HeartNatural History Author:August Strindberg
“What is called chance is the instrument of Providence and the secret agent that counteracts what men call wisdom, and preserves order and regularity, and continuation in the whole, for ... I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery; and therefore if we could correct the world to our fancies, and with the best intentions imaginable, probably we should only produce more misery and confusion.” IfsMenWorldShouldBelievePersonsWholeEarthOrderChanceSecretProduceTasteInstrumentsMiseryIntentionConfusionAgentsPreservesFancyProvidenceComplaintsChances AreTotalityContinuationRegularityBest IntentionsSecret Agent Book:The letters of Horace Walpole: fourth earl of Orford Source: The letters of Horace Walpole: fourth earl of Orford
“I believe each incoming freshman [in college] must be started at once on his own research project if we are to preserve his secret dream of greatness and make it come true.” IfsBelieveDreamI BelieveSecretGreatnessCollegeProjectsResearchPreservesFreshman Author:Edwin Land
“A person who has no secrets is a liar. We always fold ourselves away from others just enough to preserve a secret or two, something that we cannot share without destroying our inner landscape.” PersonsTwoEnoughSecretShareLandscapePreservesLiarsDestroyingFolds Author:Anne Roiphe
“God preserve us! If men knew what is done in secret, no one would be free from the interference of others.” IfsMenDoneWould BeSecretPreservesSecrecyInterference Book:Gulistan or Rose Garden Source: Gulistan or Rose Garden