Human intelligence is a function of man’s evolutionary urge; the scientist and the philosopher hunger for truth because they are tired of being merely human.
Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.
لا شيء أكثر مدعاة للخطر على الجنس البشري من الاعتقاد أنّ شؤونه أصبحت في أيدي كائنات من طراز السوبرمان.
انطلقت إلى الحياة مثل رجل لا جلد له، مرتعشًا من الاشمئزاز كلما كان علي أن أحتك بواحد من الناس.
الفن مرآة يرى فيها المرء وجهه هو.
إن إرادتي الحرة ليست سوى نتيجة لوجود مثير أو دوافع من الخارج.
If you say that everything—chaos, darkness, anathema— can be reduced to mathematical formulae—then man will go insane on purpose to have no judgement, and to behave as he likes. I believe this because...
بدا لي أن المثقفين أنفسهم يحملون ميلًا سريًا إلى التمتع بمباهج المحاكمات اللينشية التي كان يقوم بها الغوغاء.
انتباه الكاتب كان مركزًا على النقطة الخاطئة: على الجمهور وعلى تأثير كتابه بدلًا من أن يهتم بتطوره هو الخاص.
أتكون حروب القرن العشرين هي انعكاس الاحتياج إلى آلهة؟
We have not begun to live’, Yeats writes, ‘until we conceive life as a tragedy.’ Newman confessed that he considered most men to be irretrievably damned, although he spent his life ‘trying to make tha...
Steppenwolf knows well enough why he is unhappy and drifting, bored and tired; it is because he will not recognize his purpose and follow it with his whole being.‘He is resolved to forget that the des...
Mystics of many countries and many centuries have spoken of this memory…’ And he defines the real danger of this ‘lunar knowledge’: ‘It is perhaps well that so few believe in it, for if many did many...
I’ve read Joyce and Sartre and Beckett and the rest, and every atom in me rejects what they say. They strike me as liars and fools. I don’t think they’re dishonest so much as hopelessly tired and defe...
It is far easier to write an angry letter than to go and say angry things to another person - because as soon as we look in one another's faces we can see the other point of view.
Imagine that a tribe of ignorant natives find a motor-car, and decide that it makes an ideal storage room for food. So when they set out on a journey, they load it with food, attach ropes to it, and p...
I love life and I want to live, to cry but cannot—I feel such a pain in my soul—a pain which frightens me. My soul is ill. My soul, not my mind. The doctors do not understand my illness.... Everybody...
Ask the Outsider what he ultimately wants,and he will admit he doesn't know.Why? Because he wants it instinctively,and it is not always possible to tell what your instincts are driving towards.
المعرفة تفتح قوى جديدة في النفس
إن سعادة قائد عظيم أنقذ بلاده هي تمامًا نفس السعادة التي تشعر بها فتاة ترقص رقصتها الأولى.