Wednesday, April 02, 2003
�The soul of man, like unextinguished fire, yet burns towards heaven with fierce reproach.�
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 � 1822), English poet, dramatist and essayist: �Prometheus Unbound�, 1820.
�I have often thought that the best way to define a man�s character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it came upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says �This is the real me!�
- William James (1842 - 1910), American psychologist and philosopher: letter to his wife, Alice Gibbons James, 1878, pub. in �The Letters of William James�, 1920.
�Whatever is felicitously expressed risks being worse expressed: it is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.�
- Isaac D�Israeli (1766 � 1848), British author: �On Quotations� from �Curiosities of Literature�, 1834
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 � 1822), English poet, dramatist and essayist: �Prometheus Unbound�, 1820.
�I have often thought that the best way to define a man�s character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it came upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says �This is the real me!�
- William James (1842 - 1910), American psychologist and philosopher: letter to his wife, Alice Gibbons James, 1878, pub. in �The Letters of William James�, 1920.
�Whatever is felicitously expressed risks being worse expressed: it is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.�
- Isaac D�Israeli (1766 � 1848), British author: �On Quotations� from �Curiosities of Literature�, 1834
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