Continuity Quotes

She wants to have her notebooks so that the flimsy framework of events, as she has constructed them ...

There are mornings when, from the first ray of light seized upon by the eye, and the first simple so...

Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see...

He had been around politicians for a long time, and he was prepared for some outburst.

Durability is one of the chief elements of strength. Nothing is either loved or feared but that whic...

Human understanding more easily invents new things than new words.

Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is...

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Something cannot emerge from ...

He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test ...

There is in certain ancient things a traceOf some dim essence --More than form or weight;A tenuous a...

Tradition is not only bending down, or process of benign transmission. It is also a conflict between...

The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks.

All canonical writing possesses the quality "of making you feel strangeness at home.

Canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition. – From the book jacket

Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes

We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity...

If I die, don't take this too hard," she counseled them, "death is only part of things bigger than w...

It is not by blood, anyhow, that man's true continuity is established: Alexander's direct heir is Ca...

Look at your hand. Its structure does not match the structure of assertions, the structure of facts....