On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much, is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents, soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity.
Interpretation
Experiences shape our perception of time and life.
James F. Cooper suggests that the human imagination perceives the passage of time through experiences and significant events. Those who travel and encounter diverse situations may feel a deeper sense of longevity, as their lives are rich with memories that appear more ancient than they are, highlighting the profound impact that experiences have on our understanding of life and time.
In practice
In a graduation speech emphasizing the importance of experiences over mere years.
It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true; though happily for human nature, gleamings of that pure spirit in whose likeness man has been fashioned, are to be seen, relieving its deformities, and mitigating, if not excusing its crimes.
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.
Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.
The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.
She smiles at them as they go by and continues to play, making it clear that this furnace of a place, full of planes that cannot fly, is more than it seems. It is a womb of redemption for every Unwind, and fora ll those who fought the Heartland War and lost - which was everybody.
To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.
I want to be black, to know black, to luxuriate in whatever I might be calling blackness at any particular time, but to do so in order to come out on the other side, to experience a humanity that is neither colorless nor reducible to color.
God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
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