“We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.”
Source: Margaret Ogilvy (1897), Ch. 8
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“Half the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need.”
Source: Alone (1938), Ch. 2
“We need to understand what we can do and how. Otherwise we will never do it.”
Preface, p. x
Building Entopia - 1975
Address at Iona College (1984)
Context: How simple it seems now. We thought the Sermon on the Mount was a nice allegory and nothing more. What we didn't understand until we got to be a little older was that it was the whole answer, the whole truth. That the way — the only way — to succeed and to be happy is to learn those rules so basic that a shepherd's son could teach them to an ignorant flock without notes or formulae. <!-- p. 934
“We have little understanding, but we should never be afraid of anything.”
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Letter to Morton Kelsey (1958) as quoted by Morton Kelsey, Myth, History & Faith: The Mysteries of Christian Myth & Imagination (1974) Ch.VIII
Variant: It’s pathetic how we can’t live with the things we can’t understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.
Source: Asfixia
Letter to A.S. Suvorin (December 9, 1890)
Letters