top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began."
Standard
Customized
More
"If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You know you've reached the end of a relationship: when your lover now demands that your jokes be funny before they laugh."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end."
Author Name
Personal Development
"In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Passing beneath the dance hall, thinking again of this book, I realized suddenly that our life had come to an end: I realized that the book I was planning was nothing more than a tomb in which to bury her - and the me which had belonged to her. That was some time ago, and ever since I have been trying to write it. Why is it so difficult? Why? Because the idea of an "end" is intolerable to me."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I wish I could go to the school where my close friends go, but I obviously can't. The good thing is, they're really good about inviting me to all the football games and all that stuff. So I end up having an adopted team spirit for a school I don't go to."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It's not a bad problem to have because a lot of classic acts are known for one or two songs and in their show they basically hold those songs off until the end and you sit through an hour or so of lesser known material but in our case most of the songs are well known."
Author Name
Personal Development
"In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art."
Art
"Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began."
End
"Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history."
History
"The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment."
War
"True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is."
Life
"If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter."
Men
"With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama."
Act
"As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased."
Power
"In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition."
Character
"But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage."
Soul
bottom of page