Irven Wagner Quotes & Sayings

All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary. — Soren Kierkegaard

Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills beyond. — Ernest Hemingway,

Nobody is ever convinced by argument, anyway. They just think up new reasons for maintaining old positions and become more defensive. — Louis L'Amour

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society. — Jean-Francois Lyotard

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to haunt for happiness — William Ewart Gladstone

Humanity needs to weep, and this is the time to weep, — Pope Francis