 We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. Topics: Perseverance, Repentance |
| What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. Topics: Perseverance |
| With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere. Topics: Perseverance, Life |
| God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them. Topics: Perseverance, Judging |
| When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing. Topics: Philosophy, Age |
| Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes. Topics: Philosophy
Source: A Preface to Paradise Lost |
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| Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all. Topics: Philosophy, Judging |
| Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result. Topics: Philosophy
Source: A Preface to Paradise Lost |
| To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting. Topics: Philosophy
Source: The Allegory of Love |
| Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man. Topics: Philosophy
Source: The Abolition of Man |
| Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art. Topics: Philosophy
Source: from a letter to "I.O. Evans" |
| The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary colour in the spectrum. Topics: Philosophy
Source: Christian Reflections |
