“No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience…”
No. 544 (24 November 1712)
The Spectator (1711-1714)
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Source: The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why (1999), Chapter 12, The Forces behind the Technical Payoffs to Price History, p. 121
Source: The Life of Poetry (1949), p. 221
Context: Experience taken into the body, breathed-in, so that reality is the completion of experience, and poetry is what is produced. And life is what is produced.
To stand against the idea of the fallen world, a powerful and destructive idea overshadowing Western poetry. In that sense, there is no lost Eden, and God is the future. The child walled-up in our life can be given his growth. In this growth is our security.
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Source: Meeting the challenge (2009), p. xxiii.

The Aura of the Sacred lecture Juhani Pallasmaa's Agora lecture "Christianity as Secularisation" (15 August 2012).

January 6, 2004, World Bank Video Series, Amman, Jordan.

As quoted in Day's Collacon : An Encyclopaedia of Prose Quotations: (1884), p. 930; Actual quote: "That thro certain Humours or Passions, and from Temper merely, a Man may be completely miserable ; let his outward Circumstances be ever so fortunate." An inquiry concerning virtue, or merit, p. 52.