John Robert Seeley
John Robert Seeley
Sir John Robert Seeley, KCMGwas an English essayist and historian...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
beautiful interesting may
Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.
mind half world
We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.
safe virtue enthusiastic
No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.
sight history literature
Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.
running nature science
He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an appearance of confusion, analogies between phenomena of a different order suggest themselves and set the imagination in motion; the mind is haunted with the sense of a vast unity not yet discoverable or nameable. There is food for contemplation which never runs short; you are gazing at an object which is always growing clearer, and yet always, in the very act of growing clearer, presenting new mysteries.
rejection not-good-enough feelings
It's a withdrawal of love, coupled with rejection. That combination is hard to accept, and often triggers feelings of not good enough, failure at relationship, insecurity, lack of trust and other feelings.
wall men heaven
No man saw the building of the New Jerusalem, the workmen crowded together, the unfinished walls and unpaved streets; no man heard the clink of trowel and pickaxe; it descended out of heaven from God.
history literature mere
History without politics descends to mere Literature.