“Remember that lost time does not return.”
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“Remember that lost time does not return.”
“Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former”
“A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.”
“Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools”
“When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.”
“It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new”
“Habit with its iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day”
“Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history”
“I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.”
“Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less”
“One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them”
“An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return”
“I cannot stop thinking that I died before I was born and that at my death I will return to the same state”
“What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment”
“Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful”
“A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on”
“Some people read because they are too lazy to think”
“The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good”
“The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it”
“Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time”