A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion for the instinctual tribes must be satisfied.
I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth or reason. They cannot be reached by a rational argument. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>The mind is powerless against them. Yet we have to deal...
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Ayn Rand
The relationship between truth and reason:" Truth cannot be reached by reason alone!
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Maurice Blondel
I write Not For the sake of glory Not For the sake of fame Not For the sake of success But for the sake of my soul
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Beth Nimmo
The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.
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Delos McKown
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
More Quotes By Cyril Connolly
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.", February 25, 1933]
When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers, so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say ‘if I put this pill in your beer it will explode, ’ we might believe them; but were they to cry ‘if I pronounce this spell over your beer...