No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many other things so inevitably interesting. The very saints interest us most when we think of them as enganged in a conflict with the Devil.
—Robert Wilson Lynd
Topics: Conflict
It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one’s own suffering.
—Robert Wilson Lynd
Topics: Suffering
Coleridge says that to bait a mouse-trap is as much as to say to the mouse, ‘Come and have a piece of cheese,’ and then, when it accepts the invitation, to do it to death is a betrayal of the laws of hospitality.
—Robert Wilson Lynd
There are two sorts of curiosity—the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.
—Robert Wilson Lynd
Topics: Curiosity
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
—Robert Wilson Lynd
Topics: Birds
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
—Robert Wilson Lynd
Topics: Candor, Friends, Friendship
Most human beings are quite likable if you don’t see too much of them.
—Robert Wilson Lynd
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
—Robert Wilson Lynd
Topics: Knowledge
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