Quotes by Joyce, James

Mistakes are the portals of discovery. >>

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt agains >>

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's nam >>

Quotations about Buddhism

Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of me >>

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have s >>

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt. >>

Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.

Joyce, James