“[A] wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God.”
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author
Source: The Idea of a Christian Society (1939), Ch. IV, p. 62
“[A] wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God.”
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author
Source: The Idea of a Christian Society (1939), Ch. IV, p. 62
Joan Rivers (1933–2014) American comedian, actress, and television host
David Seabury, as quoted in The Forbes Scrapbook of Thoughts on the Business of Life (1950), p. 248
Misattributed
G. K. Chesterton book The Defendant
"A Defence of Baby-Worship"
The Defendant (1901)
Context: The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong. Our attitude towards our equals in age consists in a servile solemnity, overlying a considerable degree of indifference or disdain. Our attitude towards children consists in a condescending indulgence, overlying an unfathomable respect.
“The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.”
Deb Caletti (1963) American writer
Source: The Fortunes of Indigo Skye
Anne Bancroft (1931–2005) American actress
On successful marriage. Associated Press interview (1997).
Context: First of all, you have to marry the right person. If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely — by that time, you're both dead. So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.
Hermann Weyl (1885–1955) German mathematician
From the Author's Preface to Fourth Edition (1920)
Space—Time—Matter (1952)