People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience... →
Henry James
From Nelson county we went to Logan county to see some relatives we had there, and after staying until the middle of October, I returned alone to my... →
Jesse James
No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can prevent my manias and... →
Kay Redfield Jamison
The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that... →
Karl Jaspers
I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's... →
When even the most strictly logical mind looks round and investigates the phenomena attending its own existence, perhaps the first fact to attract... →
Richard Jefferies
An inspiration - a long, deep breath of the pure air of thought - could alone give health to the heart.
A man, to read, must read alone. He may make extracts, he may work at books in company; but to read, to absorb, he must be solitary.
Is there anything so delicious as the first exploration of a great library - alone - unwatched?
Beauty - what is beauty, forsooth? Form and color; that is, surface only. Fortune - what is fortune? Nothing is ever a pleasure or a real profit to... →