fundamental aspect Quotes

...language is not the frosting, it's the cake.

All that matters is that the thing be the thing of the thing.

The story is the first thing and the last thing.

For us necessity is not as of old an image without us, with whom we can do warfare; it is a magic web woven through and through us, like that magnetic system of which modern science speaks, penetrating us with a network subtler than our subtlest nerves, yet bearing in it the central forces of the world.

What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.

We have to look at the substance of something rather than the shadow.

I never even dreamed of being a chef, and that's fundamental.

The earliest instinct of the child, and the ripest experience of age, unite in affirming simplicity to be the truest and profoundest part for man. Likewise this simplicity is so universal and all-containing as a rule for human life, that the subtlest bad man, and the purest good man, as well as the profoundest wise man, do all alike present it on that side which they socially turn to the inquisitive and unscrupulous world.