The Line Between What Is Known Scientifically

Man Is Not Made To Understand Life, But To Live It.

To Turn Events Into Ideas Is The Function Of Literature.

A String Of Excited, Fugitive, Miscellaneous Pleasures Is Not Happiness; Happiness Resides In Imaginative Reflection And Judgment, When The Picture Of One's Life, Or Of Human Life, As It Truly Has Been Or Is, Satisfies The Will, And Is Gladly Accepted.

To Know What People Really Think, Pay Regard To What They Do, Rather Than What They Say.

The Mind Of The Renaissance Was Not A Pilgrim Mind, But A Sedentary City Mind, Like That Of The Ancients.