Occupation: Author Birth: June 16, 1865 Death: May 13, 1916
Dogs have owners, cats have staff..
He lives in the halflights in secret places, free and alone, this mysterious little great being whom his mistress calls, My cat..
A plate is distasteful to a cat, a newspaper still worse; they like to eat sticky pieces of meat sitting on a cushioned chair or a nice Persian rug..
The cat is, above all things, a dramatist..
... all progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority ... without the huge body of traditiona….
The spiritual is not the emotional; we may receive spiritual things emotionally, but to receive them rationally we must receive them with the mind an….
apparent contradiction ... is often the opportunity for new discovery in science; and it even may be said that the absence of apparent contradiction ….
All progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority..
Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values..
But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and we do not always relish it..