Source: The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and the Stories
“It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
“God wants to help us and will bear our burdens.”
Where Is God (2009, Thomas Nelson publishers)
“Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of fact.”
Pt. III, Form; § 30: "The average modified in the direction of pleasure.", p. 125
The Sense of Beauty (1896)
Context: In fact, the whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and gods, are so many symbolic, algebraic expressions. They stand for experience; experience which we are incapable of retaining and surveying in its multitudinous immediacy. We should flounder hopelessly, like the animals, did we not keep ourselves afloat and direct our course by these intellectual devices. Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of fact.
Source: Infinite in All Directions (1988), Ch. 1 : In Praise of Diversity
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Jnana
“There was a time when only wise books were read
helping us to bear our pain and misery.”
"Ars Poetica?"
Context: There was a time when only wise books were read
helping us to bear our pain and misery.
This, after all, is not quite the same
as leafing through a thousand works fresh from psychiatric clinics. And yet the world is different from what it seems to be
and we are other than how we see ourselves in our ravings.
[Haggard, Ted, Simple Prayers for a Powerful Life, Regal Books, September 2002, p. 110, ISBN 0830730559]
“Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 391.
