In the dawn of the world our weakly must be exposed on Mount Taygetus, in its twilight our strong will suffer euthanasia, that the Machine may progress, that the Machine may progress, that the Machine...
I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure.
I believed in a return to Nature once. But how can we return to Nature when we have never been with her? Today, I believe that we must discover Nature. After many conquests we shall attain simplicity....
He never did his dumb-bells or played in his school fifteen. But the muscles came. He thinks they came while he was reading Pindar.
For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and—by some sad, strange irony—it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratit...
Don’t you think there are two greatthings in life that we ought to aim at—truth and kindness? Let’shave both if we can, but let’s be sure of having one or the other.
After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?
Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness and hypocrisy.
How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?
And if insight were sufficient, if the inner life were the whole of life, their happiness has been assured.
You are inclined to get muddled, if I may judge from last night. Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the m...
When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else.
We reach in desperation beyond the fog, beyond the very stars, the voids of the universe are ransacked to justify the monster, and stamped with a human face. London is religions opportunity--not the d...
To attribute these two great developments to the Central Committee, is to take a very narrow view of civilization. The Central Committee announced the developments, it is true, but they were no more t...
This desire to govern a woman—it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way than he does. He thought. Yes—really in a better way. I want you...
They had tried to reproduce their own attitude to life upon the stage, and to dress up as the middle-class English people they actually were.
The final test of a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
Talk away. If you bore us, we have books.With this invitation Rickie began to relate his history. The reader who has no book will be obliged to listen to it.
She gave up trying to understand herself, and the vast armies of the benighted, who follow neither the heart nor the brain, and march to their destiny by catch-words. The armies are full of pleasant a...
Scheherazade avoided her fate because she knew how to wield the weapon of suspense –the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.