Zitat des Tages von James Stephens:
Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.
Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.
A man and a woman may become quite intimate in a quarter of an hour. Almost certainly will they endeavour to explain themselves to each other before many minutes have elapsed; but a man and a man will not do this, and even less so will a woman and a woman, for these are parallel lines which will never meet.
A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered, we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.
You must be fit to give before you can be fit to receive.
When a woman speaks to a man about the love she feels for another man, she is not liked.
A sword, a spade, and a thought should never be allowed to rust.
Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.
Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness.
Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unnecessary labour, for nature will quickly reduce him to a natural and healthy dirtiness again.
To work is nothing; the king on his throne, the priest kneeling before the Holy Altar, all people in all places had to work, but no person at all need be a servant.
The trouble of the king becomes the trouble of the subject, for how shall we live if judgement is withheld, or if faulty decisions are promulgated?
The inexorable compulsion of all things is towards health or destruction, life or death, and we hasten our joys or our woes to the logical extreme. It is urgent, therefore, that we be joyous if we wish to live.
Women are stronger than men - they do not die of wisdom.