Kent Nerburn Quotes

Remember, once more how our world should be. And please, don't forget, please, please don't forget.

I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.

Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.

Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Rest and activity are the steps of progress.

Is not the action of nature like the stretching of a bow? The high, it pulls down; the low, it lifts up; It takes from what is in excess In order to make good of what is deficient. Who can take what they have in excess and offer it to others?

We believe profoundly in silence-the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit.

I love meeting life halfway.

In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?

Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.

No Utopia is Utopia for everyone

I am a perfect being in a perfect world.

As painful as life can be at times for people all over the world there is some component of existence, or nonexistence perhaps, operating to implement a balance and give us an opportunity to turn the horrors we've forced upon each other into something more conducive to sustaining at least minimal degrees of sanity and love.

Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness, to teach him how to develop that uniqueness, and then to show him how to share it because that’s the only reason for having anything.

if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?

And what would they be scared of? There's nothing to fear in a perfect world, is there?

Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.

I have no notions of a perfect society, I don’t know what that means. I know we can do much better than what we’ve got, I’m no utopian, I’m not a humanist that would like to see everybody living in warmth and harmony: I know that if we don’t live that way, we’ll kill each other and destroy the Earth.

I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.

No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect.

Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias.

And then what?" said her daemon sleepily. "Build what?" "The Republic of Heaven," said Lyra.

The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia.

The Golden Age is the most implausible of all dreams. But for it men have given up their life and strength; for the sake of it prophets have died and been slain; without it the people will not live and cannot die.