Chauncey Wright Quotes

The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.

Chauncey Wright

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 10, 1830 - September 12, 1875

Topics

NatureCaringSometimesWhySheHer

It takes two hands to clap.

Jiang Zemin

HandsTwoClapTakes

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

Joan Didion

PowerPlayKnowGrammarPianoEar

That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.

Jerry Seinfeld

PeopleMeTrueChristmasSpirit

The best thing I have are 5 percent bonds from 1780, denominated from $1 to $20. As far as I can tell, they are obligations from the United States of America, so I should be able to walk down to the Federal Reserve and redeem the uncanceled ones. With 217 years of accrued interest, for a $20 bond, that's about $800,000.

Andrew Tobias

BestWalkBondAmericaDownI Can

I should be pleased to see all the nations on the earth prosperous and happy and rich, for it would furnish to me the best evidence of the prosperity of my native land.

John Tyler

BestHappyMeRichEarthProsperity

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

Amanda Palmer

IdeasEnoughDownOutSitGet

If you look at pop culture as the main picture you see of black men, all these kind of threatening pictures and - I think those of us who are artists and who are in media have to think carefully about what those pictures are.

Trip Lee

CultureMenBlackThinkPictureYou

Faffing is good. It is an important part of life. Faffing is when we disconnect from the matrix and idle for a while, like a car. Our body and spirit know deep down that human beings were not made for constant toil so subconsciously creates space through the mechanism of faffing.

Tom Hodgkinson

LifeGoodCarSpaceDeepBody

We need to have a culture that says 'the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are and the better you should feel about yourself'.

Roscoe Bartlett

CultureYourselfEnergyBetterYou

The knowledge we gain about the secrets of the spiritual world is at every hour, at every moment, of vital and profound significance for our souls; what seems to be remote from us personally is often what the soul inwardly needs.

Rudolf Steiner

KnowledgeMomentSoulSpiritualUs

I've always been a bit of a space geek. I wrote an article years ago about the neutral buoyancy tank, which is this biblically sized pool where they train astronauts. And it was just the coolest thing.

Mary Roach

SpacePoolTrainAlwaysYearsWhere

Skating takes up 70 percent of my time, school about 25 percent. Having fun and talking to my friends, 5 percent. It's hard. I envy other kids a lot of things, but I get a guilt trip when I'm not training.

Michelle Kwan

TimeTrainingSchoolFunHaving Fun

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