One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview
with a doctor than from any human experience.
-- Alice James
with a doctor than from any human experience.
-- Alice James
Related:
- One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than
the principles of common sense, as validated each day by work, play, and
living experience.
But this remains the most utopian and fantastic of ideals. -- Edward Abbey... - The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly
greater than that of any other animals.
Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose, for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics.... - There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and
this is not learning from experience.
-- Laurence J. Pete... - DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from
private station to political preferment.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary... - What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they
are joined.
.. to strengthen each other... to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.... - There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is
habitual but indecision.
-- William Jame...
