“The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.”
Death“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“The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.”
Death“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“So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.”
Business“Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.”
Change“People always make war when they say they love peace.”
Peace“Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.”
Death“Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.”
Freedom“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“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“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“Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.”
Knowledge“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 business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.”
Art“Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.”
Freedom“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“Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.”
Peace“God is only a great imaginative experience.”
Experience“They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.”
Sad“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“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