
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), XI : The Practical Problem
Source: Walden
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), XI : The Practical Problem
“Safeguard the warmth of the family, because all the warmth of the world will not make up for it.”
Love is a Radiant Light: The Life & Words of Saint Charbel (2019)
“The world wants water not taps, the world wants warmth not a heater.”
Attributed to Starck in: Iain Ellwood (2002) The Essential Brand Book. p. 148
AfterElton.com - Interview with Nigel Slater (page 2) http://www.afterelton.com/archive/elton/print/2005/1/nigelslater2.html
“I like any man, I need tenderness and family warmth.”
aljarida.com, Oct 9, 2007 https://www.aljarida.com/articles/1461355687919864700/
“What man needs is silence and warmth; what he is given is an icy pandemonium.”
Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Human Personality (1943), p. 59
Context: A modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limit of horror. Everybody in it is constantly harassed and kept on edge by the interference of extraneous wills while the soul is left in cold and desolate misery. What man needs is silence and warmth; what he is given is an icy pandemonium.
Physical labour may be painful, but it is not degrading as such. It is not art; it is not science; it is something else, possessing an exactly equal value with art and science, for it provides an equal opportunity to reach the impersonal stage of attention.
Source: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 25 (p. 531)