“The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.”
Nine Stories (1953), De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period (1952)
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Album liner - Grand Piano (Narada Anniversay Collection)
Die glücklichen Pessimisten! Welche Freude empfinden sie, so oft sie bewiesen haben, daß es keine Freude gibt.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 19.
“There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.”
Pilgrim's Way (1940), p. 117
Memory Hold-The-Door (1940)
“An Unprejudiced Mind,” p. 326
Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality (1964)
“Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
“When a thing gets very, very small, you can't tell the difference between a solid and a liquid.”
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SETI Talk 2013
“The wretched and the miserable would rise to plenty of joy and happiness.”
Eleven important sayings