No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably - our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
Self-recognition is necessary to know one's road, but, knowing the road, the price of the mistakes and perils is worth paying. The following of that road will be all the discipline one needs. Discipline does not mean being molded by… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part. — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd for protection,… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
The ironic life is a life keenly alert, keenly sensitive, reacting promptly with feelings of liking or dislike to each bit of experience, letting… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
A cultivation of the powers of one's personality is one of the greatest needs of life. — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
A good discussion increases the dimensions of everyone who takes part. — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books. — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing. — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
“The American intellectuals, in their preoccupation with reality, seem to have forgotten that the real enemy is War rather than imperial Germany. There is… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
“No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how imperfect and jagged our life has been,… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
