The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction Freya Stark More Quotes by Freya Stark More Quotes From Freya Stark Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else. Freya Stark zero may manners The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room. Freya Stark simple rooms world I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all. Freya Stark our-words long believe The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition. Freya Stark untruthfulness advertising art Tidiness ... makes life easier and more agreeable, does harm to no one and actually saves time and trouble to the person who practices it: there must be an ominous flaw to explain why millions of generations continue to reject it. Freya Stark practice doe order The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it were a ritual affair above the comprehension of the vulgar; and no doubt he comforts himself for the dullness of life by a sense of virtue, like many other formalists beside him. Freya Stark usual doubt comfort The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows. Freya Stark fundamentals wish art The monstrosity of bureaucracy, I thought: always the pint-pot judging the gallon, the scribe's, the door-keeper's world. Always the stupidity of people who feel certain about things they never try to find out. A world that educates people to be ignorant - that is what this world of ours is. Freya Stark judging doors people The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war. Freya Stark pacifist substitutes war I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration. Freya Stark body age thinking One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done. Freya Stark nuisance luck done Whatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound to make away with intimacy - the intercourse of human beings, of animals, or of that which we still think of as the natural world. Freya Stark technology animal thinking Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle. Freya Stark circles soul race Time is the sea in which men grow, are born, or die. Freya Stark born sea men Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art. Freya Stark journey travel art The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised. Freya Stark women stupid love The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech. Freya Stark silence sea travel The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live. Freya Stark unexpectedness wise waiting I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving Freya Stark receiving mind people An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death. Freya Stark successful acceptance death
