R.S. Thomas Quotes
Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
Cooperativeness is not so much learning how to get along with others as taking the kinks out of ourselves, so that others can get along with us.
This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.
We need learn what we need to learn, know what we need to know, and do what we need to do.
Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.
Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?
The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.
It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.
When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines.
The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.
Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way.
It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.
It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.
Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.
The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.
Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.
Whatever has a tendency to promote the civil intercourse of nations by an exchange of benefits is a subject as worthy of philosophy as of politics.
Those expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in the family.
If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.
Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.