“Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.”
Truth“Be still when you have nothing to say when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.”
Communication“Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.”
Truth“I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.”
God“Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.”
Freedom“Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.”
Nature“The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.”
Art“Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.”
Experience“All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.”
Truth“Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.”
Knowledge“So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.”
Business“The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.”
Fear“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.”
Age“I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.”
Dreams“The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.”
History“Be still when you have nothing to say when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.”
Communication“The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.”
Beauty“The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.”
Nature“There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.”
God“Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.”
Art“My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.”
Happiness“Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.”
Death