Mercuries Quotes & Sayings

Having set its mark on the generation before Cocteau's, symbolism expressed a form of inner dissidence confronting the narrow-minded materialism and utilitarian obsession of the industrial revolution, and hence a reaction to triumphant naturalism, in literature at least. Nourished by medieval, Renaissance, and Romantic art, symbolism, probably the last great backward-looking movement hatched in the West, had given rise to a desire to explore the secrets of the world and the confines of the soul. Beyond its androgynous Mercuries, its pale Narcissuses, and its Orpheuses borne by rosaries of angels, it gave rise to a whole misty alchemy wherein some found their way into esotericism and even into the religious, since the Universe was only the symbol of another world into which entrance was gained not only through poetry, spiritualism, dreams, and the Ideal, but also via the play of analogies and the study of ciphers. — Claude Arnaud

If you want to be trusted, be trustworthy. — Stephen Covey

[God says] Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend - it must transcend all comprehension. Plunge into the deep waters beyond your own comprehension, and I will help you to comprehend even as I do. Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge. My comprehension transcends yours. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I love book signings: kids waiting in line for you to scribble on their new books, haha! — Brian Jacques

We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived ... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing! — Paddy Chayefsky

A quiet soul, peaceful life — Lailah Gifty Akita

There will always be in society certain persons who are mercuries of its approbation, and whose glance will at any time determinefor the curious their standing in the world. These are the chamberlains of the lesser gods. Accept their coldness as an omen of grace with the loftier deities, and allow them all their privilege. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The final reward of the dead - to die no more — Friedrich Nietzsche

By 2042, whites will no longer be the American majority. — Richard Benjamin

Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands for the whole. — Decimius Magnus Ausonius

I do labor - it's part of the process. Writing is no easier today than it was in the beginning: writing well is very hard to do. Always. — Nicholas Sparks