The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his withdrawal, creative. He can find the quality of happiness in the strain and travail only of achievement and growth. And he is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment which his life-urges demand when his is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.
For although there is not a single aspect of European growth in which the decisive influence of Islamic culture is not traceable, nowhere is it so cl… - Robert Briffault
For although there is not a single aspect of European growth in which the decisive influence of Islamic culture is not traceable, nowhere is it so cl…
- Robert Briffault
The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his withdrawal, creati… - Robert Briffault
The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his withdrawal, creati…
The old fellow who was cadging drinks from me the other night at the Cafe Royal told me he had known Julian Bern's people in the old days at Rome. - Robert Briffault
The old fellow who was cadging drinks from me the other night at the Cafe Royal told me he had known Julian Bern's people in the old days at Rome.
Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government. - Robert Briffault
Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government.
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as… - Robert Briffault
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as…
No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution. - Robert Briffault
No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution.
The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, … - Robert Briffault
The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, …
The hell of human suffering, evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity, who have most d… - Robert Briffault
The hell of human suffering, evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity, who have most d…
Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical.... It reduces wisdom to impotence and s… - Robert Briffault
Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical.... It reduces wisdom to impotence and s…
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