Great Throughts Treasury

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Elif Safak

Do not be scared where it leads the way. Instead, focus on the first step. This is the hardest part and that of her liability. Once you do the first step, let everything follow its natural course, and the rest will be ordered only. Not drift. You yourself be over.

Appreciation | Art | Creativity | Criticism | Destroy | Good | Appreciation | Art |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

I am so in love with you that there isnÂ’t anything else.

Criticism | Dirty | Gold | Writing |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.

Criticism | Lord | Money | Think |

Étienne Gilson, fully Étienne Henry Gilson

Speaking on the near skepticism of the study of the history of philosophy:

Criticism | Distinguish | Doubt | Effort | Existence | Faith | God | Mind | Modesty | Need | Question | Reason | Truth | God | Afraid |

Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

We have ceased to be a nation under law but instead a homeland where the withered Bill of Rights, like a dead trumpet vine, clings to our pseudo-Roman columns.

Battle | Criticism | Day | Life | Life | Literature | Nothing | Order | Present | Will |

Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis Pound

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Attention | Criticism | Men |

Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis Pound

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

Criticism | Work | Value |

Felix Adler

For a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.

Criticism | Literature | Seclusion | Will |

Felix Adler

The moral order never is, but is ever becoming. It grows with our growth.

Criticism | Desire | Doubt | Faith | Improvement | Individual | Life | Life | Nations | Regard | Sacred | Intellect |

Italian Proverbs

With the first wife is matrimony, the second company, the third heresy.

Criticism | Sense |