55 Quotes by Florida Scott-Maxwell

"I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourself, just truth – a morsel – and you."

"We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn’t be discovery."

"Another secret we carry is that though drab outside – wreckage to the eye, mirrors a mortification – inside we flame with a wild life that is almost incommunicable."

"I admire a contented mind. I revere enjoyment of the simple things. I can imagine that contentment has a high degree of truth. But the human tendency is to take good as normal, and one’s natural right, and so no cause for satisfaction and pleasure. This is accompanied by the habit of regarding bad as abnormal and a personal outrage."

"It is as though God said, “You think to create order? Here is the appropriate disorder, since they are one."