“The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.”
Anger“The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.”
Art“The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.”
Anger“The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.”
Nature“I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.”
Life“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“I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.”
Business“People always make war when they say they love peace.”
Peace“Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.”
Peace“All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.”
Truth“Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.”
Women“They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.”
Sad“I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.”
Art“The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.”
Experience“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“Men! The only animal in the world to fear.”
Fear“Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.”
Change“Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.”
Death“The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.”
Business“The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.”
Art“Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.”
Art“It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.”
Humor