The World Motivation
If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
“If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.”
If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
Chance is a name for our ignorance.
Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers.
If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.
The shows being made nowadays are very similar, very regressive. We are talking about the type of '60s, '70s kind of films, and similar stories are being shown on TV today. Only rehashed and glossy. It does not interest me.
Nowadays, the term 'selling out' doesn't exist anymore because everyone is trying to make a living.
I never knew how to throw a fastball, never learned how to throw a curveball, a slider, split-finger, whatever they're throwing nowadays. I was a one-pitch pitcher.
People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.
I come from a generation which definitely treated anyone older and more successful with reverence. But it's much more democratic nowadays.