Seifried Frank Quotes & Sayings

Of course, any map of the Place would be shocking to anyone with any understanding of geography. As you can see, this is a map of no earthly geography. - — Elizabeth Knox

Among a people without fellow-feeling, especially if they read and speak different languages, the united public opinion, necessary to the working of the representative government, cannot exist. — John Stuart Mill

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too. — H.L. Mencken

Reading to small children is a specialty. — Clifton Fadiman

For the employee, the goal is to have full access to necessary information and as much independent decision-making ability as possible. For the entrepreneur, the goal is to grant as much information and independent decision-making ability to employees or contractors as possible. — Tim Ferriss

Lovers' reading of each other's bodies (of that concentrate of mind and body which lovers use to go to bed together) differs from the reading of written pages in that it is not linear. It starts at any point, skips, repeat itself, goes backward, insists, ramifies in simultaneous and divergent messages, converges again, has moments of irritation, turns the page, finds its place, gets lost. A direction can be recognized in it, a route to an end, since it tends toward a climax, and with this end in view it arranges rhythmic phases, metrical scansions, recurrence of motives. But is the climax really the end? Or is the race toward that end opposed by another drive which works in the opposite direction, swimming against moments, recovering time? — Italo Calvino

Then draw near to nature. Pretend you are the very first man and then write what you see and experience, what you love and lose. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break. — Bill James

Only insofar as we remain in harmony with divine law - do good things come to us — Peace Pilgrim

General knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we discourage it at our peril. — C.V. Wedgwood

Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art. — Ralph Waldo Emerson