“God is only a great imaginative experience.”
Experience“God is only a great imaginative experience.”
Experience“God is only a great imaginative experience.”
Experience“Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.”
Death“Men! The only animal in the world to fear.”
Fear“You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.”
Love“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“Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.”
Peace“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“I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.”
Life“All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.”
Truth“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“The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.”
Death“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.”
Age“The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.”
Nature“Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.”
Truth“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“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“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“Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.”
Knowledge“It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.”
Religion“Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.”
Beauty