The winds that blow
The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise. Garet Garrett
Scorn
It is a melancholy
It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to prove new theorems, to add to mathematics, and not to talk about what he or other mathematicians have done. Statesmen despise publicists, painters despise art-critics, and physiologists, physicists, or mathematicians … Read more
There is no scorn
There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. G. H. Hardy
Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is
Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds. G. H. Hardy
Launch out into the
Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence. Essie Summers
In a trader-dominated society,
In a trader-dominated society, the scribe is usually kept out of the management of affairs, but it given a more or less free hand in the cultural field. By frustrating the scribe’s craving for commanding action, the trader draws upon himself the scribe’s wrath and scorn. Eric Hoffer
If you set your
If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will say Behold a philosopher arisen among us! or How came you by that brow of scorn? But do you cherish no scorn, but hold to those things which seem to you the best, … Read more
Love is like the
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, But which will bloom most constantly? The wild rose-briar is sweet in spring ,Its summer blossoms scent the air; Yet wait till winter comes again, And who will call the wild-briar fair? Then, scorn the silly rose-wreath … Read more
He had been content
He had been content with daily labour and rough animal enjoyments, ’till Catherine crossed his path. Shame at her scorn, and hope of her approval, were his first prompts to higher pursuits; and, instead of guarding him from one and winning him to the other, his endeavors to raise himself had produced just the contrary … Read more
Riches I hold in
Riches I hold in light esteem, And love I laugh to scorn, And lust of fame was but a dream That vanished with the morn. And if I pray, the only prayer That moves my lips for me Is, ‘Leave the heart that now I bear, And give me liberty!’ Yes, as my swift days … Read more