Famous quotes containing the words space, ritual and/or volume:
“If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing. It would take us as long to recall a space of time as it took the original time to elapse, and we should never get ahead with our thinking. All recollected times undergo, accordingly, what M. Ribot calls foreshortening; and this foreshortening is due to the omission of an enormous number of facts which filled them.”
—William James (18421910)
“A few years later, I would have answered, I never repeat anything. That is the ritual phrase of society people, by which the gossip is reassured every time.”
—Marcel Proust (18711922)
“To be thoroughly conversant with a Mans heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091845)