Famous quotes containing the words sources, beliefs, world and/or view:
“The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasnt got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“The circumstances with which every thing in this world is begirt, give every thing in this world its size and shape;and by tightening it, or relaxing it, this way or that, make the thing to be, what it isgreatlittlegoodbadindifferent or not indifferent, just as the case happens.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
“That author who draws a character, even though to common view incongruous in its parts, as the flying-squirrel, and, at different periods, as much at variance with itself as the caterpillar is with the butterfly into which it changes, may yet, in so doing, be not false but faithful to facts.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)