“after you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.”
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Walt Whitman181
American poet, essayist and journalist 1819–1892Related quotes
“To those who have exhausted statecraft, nothing remains but the realm of pure thought.”
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
A ceux qui ont épuisé la politique, il ne reste plus que la pensée pure.
Source: About Catherine de' Medici (1842), Part II: The Ruggieri's Secret, Ch. V: The Alchemists.
Frederick William Robertson (1816–1853) British writer and theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 119.
“Or else remain the slaves of permanence.”
Hermann Hesse book The Glass Bead Game
The Glass Bead Game (1943)
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools
"Democracy" (1861)
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Potrete indossare infinite maschere, assumere atteggiamenti diversi e cambiare il vostro linguaggio abituale, ma rimarrete sempre, inevitabilmente, solo ciò che dimostrate di essere.
Source: prevale.net
