Subtler Quotes

One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.