Ignes Fatui Quotes & Sayings

We have never been so rich in books. But there has never been a generation when there is so much twaddle in print for children. — Charlotte Mason

The alchemist saw the union of opposites under the symbol of the tree, and it is therefore not surprising that the unconscious of present-day man, who no longer feels at home in his world and can base his existence neither on the past that is no more nor on the future that is yet to be, should hark back to the symbol of the cosmic tree rooted in this world and growing up to heaven - the tree that is also man. In the history of symbols this tree is described as the way of life itself, a growing into that which eternally is and does not change; which springs from the union of opposites and, by its eternal presence, also makes that union possible. It seems as if it were only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own "existence" and making a philosophy out of it, can find his way back to a world in which he is no longer a stranger. — C. G. Jung

He walked up to her and they began dancing. She was dressed like Cinderella and he looked just like Prince Charming.
As they danced, he whispered to her, I believe in fairy tale endings. — Linda Weaver Clarke

Tessie allowed Milton to press his clarinet to her skin and fill her body with music. At first it only tickled her. But after a while the notes spread deeper into her body. She felt the vibrations penetrate her muscles, pulsing in waves, until they rattled her bones and made her inner organs hum. — Jeffrey Eugenides

The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace ... And, on the contrary, metaphors, and senseless ambiguous words are like ignes fatui; and reasoning upon them is wandering amongst innumerable absurdities. — Thomas Hobbes

You have to have passion when you're finding a recipe for a career. If you love what you are doing, you'll never work a day in your life. — Debbi Fields