Buts Quotes (page 1041)

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• life
• reason
• reasonable

He is not apprehended by reason, but by life. Leo Tolstoy

• god
• hope
• hopeful

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it. C. S. Lewis

• consider
• simple
• wonderful

All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have. been tolerated; forgetful that they themselves perhaps tolerate other inequalities under an equally mistaken notion of expediency, the correction of which would make that which they approve seem quite as monstrous as what they have at last learnt to condemn. John Stuart Mill

• world
• means
• worldly

I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. Albert Camus

• manly
• writing
• book

As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To what end? To be free. But free to what end? To read books, to write books, to think. Paul Auster

• philosophical
• stress
• thinking

I hope it is not necessary for me to stress the platonic nature of our relationship- not platonic in the purest sense, there was no philosophical discourse, but we certainly didn't fuck, which is usually what people mean by platonic; which I bet would really piss Plato off, that for all his thinking and chatting his name has become an adjective for describing sexless trysts. Russell Brand

• does
• knows
• knowingly

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does. Michel Foucault

• tree
• ripening
• counted

Not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree. Rainer Maria Rilke

• saying
• manly
• different

Man has no individual i. But there are, instead, hundreds and thousands of separate small "i"s, very often entirely unknown to one another, never coming into contact, or, on the contrary, hostile to each other, mutually exclusive and incompatible. Each minute, each moment, man is saying or thinking, "i". And each time his i is different. just now it was a thought, now it is a desire, now a sensation, now another thought, and so on, endlessly. Man is a plurality. Man's name is legion. G. I. Gurdjieff

• english
• spanish
• poetry

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca. W. S. Merwin

• tree
• thoughts
• end

Thoughts are apples on the tree, Not meant for anyone in particular, But they end up belonging. To the one who takes them. Hugo von Hofmannsthal

• rain
• pain
• wellness

Well, the rain had stopped but the pain was still there. Charles Bukowski

• time
• manly
• she

He may not have been exactly what she wanted in a man, but he was unsurpassable in providing the rabid fandom which, at the time, she needed even more than romance. Jonathan Franzen

• waiting
• men
• waited

They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How easy to the smallest building; how impossible to most men. Thomas Hardy

• wonderful
• wonder
• sleep

Everyone disliked their partners at some time or another, she knew that. But she’d spent her hours in the dark wondering whether she’d ever liked him. Would it really have been so much worse to spend those years alone? Why did there have to be someone else in the room while she was eating, watching TV, sleeping? Nick Hornby