The Mind Knows Only What Lies Near

When We Speak Of Beauty, We're Speaking Of Something We're More Or Less Indifferent To.

... Clear Thinking Is Not The Characteristic Which Distinguishes Our Literature Today. We Are More And More Caught Up By The Unintelligible. People Like It. This Argues An Inability To Think, Or, Almost As Bad, A Disinclination To Think.

Old Ideas Are Continually Being Slain By New Facts. There Is Nothing Stable In The Conclusions Of The Mind, And It Is Impossible That There Ever Should Be Unless We Hold That The Universe Is Made To The Measure Of The Human Mind, An Assumption For Which Nothing In The Past Gives Any Warrant.

The Temper Of Mind That Sees Tragedy In Life Has Not For Its Opposite The Temper That Sees Joy. The Opposite Pole To The Tragic View Of Life Is The Sordid View.

Pain Is The Most Individualized Thing On Earth. It Is True That It Is The Great Common Bond As Well, But That Realization Only Comes When It Is Over. To Suffer Is To Be Alone. To Watch Another Suffer Is To Know The Barrier That Shuts Each Of Us Away By Himself Only Individuals Can Suffer.