The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
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1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitio… 1817–1862Related quotes
“Why would we write if we’d already heard what we wanted to hear?”
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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)

“We say to others only what we need to hear.”
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

Letter to Carl Jung, (16 June 1948)
Context: The purely psychological interpretation only apprehends half of the matter. The other half is the revealing of the archetypal basis of the terms actually applied in modern physics. What the final method of observation must see in the production of "background physics" through the unconscious of modern man is a directing of objective toward a future description of nature that uniformly comprises physis and psyche, a form of description that at the moment we are experiencing only in a prescientific phase. To achieve such a uniform description of nature, it appears to be essential to have recourse to the archetypal background of the scientific terms and concepts.

“911. Life is halfe spent before we know what it is.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Source: Short fiction, The Martian and the Moron (1949), p. 37

Source: The Cardturner: A Novel about a King, a Queen, and a Joker

"Already" in Drift-Weed (1878), p. 103.
Context: O brief, bright smile of summer!
O days divine and dear
The voices of winter's sorrow
Already we can hear.And we know that the frosts will find us,
And the smiling skies grow rude,
While we look in the face of Beauty,
And worship her every mood.