“Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.”
Time“Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.”
Intelligence“Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.”
Time“Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.”
Knowledge“Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.”
Truth“Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.”
Good“Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.”
Happiness“So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.”
Men“All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.”
Power“Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.”
Science“There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.”
Love“The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.”
Art“One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.”
Great“There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.”
Happiness“A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.”
Good“Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you.”
Experience“The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency.”
Freedom“People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.”
Work“A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.”
Freedom“Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.”
Intelligence“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”
Change“Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.”
Beauty