Franny and Zooey (1961), Zooey (1957)
Context: Even if you went out and searched the whole world for a master — some guru, some holy man — to tell you how to say your Jesus Prayer properly, what good would it do you? How in hell are you going to recognize a legitimate holy man when you see one if you don't even know a cup of consecrated chicken soup when it's right in front of your nose? Can you tell me that?
“To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.”
"In Front of Your Nose," Tribune (22 March 1946)
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English author and journalist 1903–1950Related quotes
(zh-TW) 非其鬼而祭之,諂也。見義不為,無勇也。
The Analects, Chapter I, Chapter II
“Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.”
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Shaykh Hamza Yusuf https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/158902.Hamza_Yusuf
1962, quoted in Andriessen and Schoenberger, The Apollonian Clockwork (1989). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
1960s