Booth Tarkington Quotes

The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.

The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?

Film is not very practical. The new world goes faster, and digital is very fast.

Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day, we become seekers.

Do you know what I think Mayflowers are, Marilla? I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last summer, and this is their heaven.

The world fascinates me.

The world, with all its beauty and adventure, its richness and variety, is darkened by cruelty. Death, if it ends the loveliness, the adventure, ends also that. Death balances the picture.

Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?

At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough.

If you pay sufficient attention, everything in life is magnificent, everything is a doorway to the Divine.

A lifetime isn't long enough for the beauty of this world and the responsibilities of your life.

When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.

Our civilization is experiencing unprecedented changes across many realms, largely due to the rapid advancement of information technology. The ability to code and understand the power of computing is crucial to success in today's hyper-connected world.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.

Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world.

Why we do what we do: that moment when you get to see the future on your computer screen before the rest of the world.

So we have progressed to the point where we can move politicians around faster than light. I'm not sure I see the advantage.

This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world.

The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.

What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life

Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.

By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death

Are we changing as fast as the world around us?