“Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.”
Dad“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
Religion“Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.”
Dad“What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.”
Time“Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.”
Intelligence“Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.”
God“Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.”
Freedom“Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.”
Knowledge“Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.”
Power“There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.”
Happiness“Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.”
Good“Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.”
Truth“Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.”
Science“It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'”
Life“Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.”
Good“Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?”
Art“Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.”
Best“Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.”
Good“De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.”
History“All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.”
Power“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.”
Age“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
Religion