Reason, Observation and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science — have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make others so. This is enough for us. In this belief we are content to live and die. If by any possibility the existence of a power superior to, and independent of, nature shall be demonstrated, there will then be time enough to kneel. Until then, let us stand erect.
Robert G. IngersollTags: science happiness experience reason inspiration belief nature hope observation supernatural content holy-trinity trinity
The soul is the form of the body, but not as the shape of a statue is formatio et terminatio materiae, for form does not exist apart from material. There is no whiteness without a white object. But the soul is not a form in this simple sense, and in particular, is not the shape of the material it informs. Therefore, the shape of a being does not affect the being's soul, for then something lower would inform something higher, which is impossible.
Michael FlynnThere is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.
Carlos FuentesTags: creation content tradition form allusion
Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.
Augusto Roa BastosThe palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep my mind from its melancholy, then it became a dream and a necessity. . . . I built a temple in my head. . . . Its hallways were as lofty as a cathedral, and the arch of each window as supple as a bow. Its corridors were the passages of my own brain.
Lisa St. Aubin de TeránTags: imagination creativity content structure form construction
I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel."
(Audrey Hepburn: Many-Sided Charmer, LIFE Magazine, December 7, 1953)
Tags: solitude alone privacy content weekend refueling reprive restoration
Poor is the man whom is not content with what he has.
Rita GonzalezThe ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
Edgar Allan PoeAnd though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet I would remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.
Ursula K. Le GuinTags: dragons sunset content reminiscence
Be content with your lot; once cannot be first in everything.
AesopTags: everything content first lot aesop
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