We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but
also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life.
-- Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life.
-- Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
Related:
- Life is sometimes hard to love, though we must love it because we
have no other.
To fail to love it is to cease to exist... - Were such things here as we do speak about? Or have we eaten on the
insane root that takes the reason prisoner?
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Macbeth -- Act i... - We never repent of having eaten too little."
--
Thomas Jefferson (1743... - Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information... - Dump the condiments. If we are to be eaten, we don't need to taste good.
Visionaries... - We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed
without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
Senator Dan Quayle, 9/6/88 -- (reported in Esquire... - Why does this magnificent applied science, which saves work and makes
life easier,
bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs... - Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence... - Termites've Have Eaten Thru To
Your Top...
From the same category:
- When two people are under the influence of the most violent,
most insane, most delusive, and most transient of... - Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.
Conscience is the trade name of the firm. -... - All empty souls tend to extreme opinion.
--
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) "Dramatis Personae"... - If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him.
But all nature cries aloud that He does exist; that... - I put the relationship of a fine teacher to a student just below that of a
mother to a son,
and I don't think I should say more than this. ...
