www.philosophicalsociety.com "To every man comes, sooner or later, the great renunciation. For the young, there is nothing unattainable; a good thing desired with the whole force of a passionate will, and yet impossible, is to them not credible. Yet, by death, by illness, by poverty, or by the voice of duty, we must learn, each one of us, that the world was not made for us, and that, however beautiful may be the things we crave, Fate may nevertheless forbid them. It is the part of courage, when misfortune comes, to bear without repining the ruin of our hopes, to turn away our thoughts from vain regrets." Bertrand Russell "The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing." — Walt Whitman "There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it positively refuses to account for are a genuine portion of reality; and they may after all be the best key to life’s significance, and possibly the only openers of our eyes to the deepest levels of truth." William James "To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all. " — Walt Whitman "Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large — I contain multitudes." — Walt Whitman "One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical...for the paradox is the source of the thinker's passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a <b>...</b>