“Doctrine is the frame-work of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life. It is only the lean creature whose bones become offensive.”
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 194.
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American hymnwriter 1836–1895Related quotes
“For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.”
Source: ‘Pius Ncube now living a life of prayer’ https://thestandard.newsday.co.zw/2012/08/05/pius-ncube-now-living-a-life-of-prayer/ (5 August 2012)
Source: Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein and the Poet (1983), p. 142
“Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.”
Mrs Dalloway (1925)
Source: Mrs. Dalloway
“Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.”
Source: The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 563.
“No doctrine tempts it. It awaits the ripening of the work and of life.”
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), Absurd Creation
Context: Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.
Any thought that abandons unity glorifies diversity! And diversity is the home of art. The only thought to liberate the mind is that which leaves it alone, certain of its limits and of its impending end. No doctrine tempts it. It awaits the ripening of the work and of life. <!-- 116
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