“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“Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.”
Freedom“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“A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.”
Religion“My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.”
Religion“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“Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!”
Art“Men! The only animal in the world to fear.”
Fear“There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.”
Change“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“The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.”
Death“I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.”
Life“Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.”
Freedom“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 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“Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.”
Age“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“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“All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.”
Truth“The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.”
Beauty“So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.”
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