
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
Source: A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book II, Chapter VIII, Sec. 18
Herbert N. Casson in: Forbes (1948). p. 42
1920s-1940s
The Philosophy of Paine (1925)
Context: The memory of Tom Paine will outlive all this. No man who helped to lay the foundations of our liberty — who stepped forth as the champion of so difficult a cause — can be permanently obscured by such attacks. Tom Paine should be read by his countrymen. I commend his fame to their hands.
Source: The Haunting of Hill House (1959), Ch. 1
Context: No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.