Margaret Fuller Quotes

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

A human spirit may find no insufficiency of food fit for it, even in the Custom House.

I like learning new stuff, and continuing to educate myself as best I can.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

We still need to feed the public, both physically and intellectually.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars.

Men and women do not live by bread alone. They also need sustaining ideas.

It's very important not just to think you need to eat and drink and sleep. You need to feed your heart and your mind and your soul as well.

Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but he doesn't have a favorite place to feed his mind!

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.

The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.

Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways.

How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.

Studies are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad; they are companions by night, and in travel, and in the country.

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things : That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave

I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.

Your dream is a good one. [. . .] The desire that is the very root of life itself: To grow until all the space you can see is part of you, under your control. It's the desire for greatness.

I hated being stuck at home doing the student thing. I always wanted to work. And there's nothing wrong with it. So you can take what you can get. And, you know, this, 'Well, that's beneath me. I have a degree.' Put it aside for a while because reality is what it is. There are a lot of people having to do a lot of things that they think are beneath them right now because McDonald's is not open to make sure you don't starve. That's your job. Your responsibility to make sure you don't starve and your kids don't starve and all the rest of it.

I'm working on my house and playing with my fire pit and kind of just hanging around and making my home feel homey.

A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world.

Man cannot live upon words, however he may try.