If better conditions will make the poor more fit to govern themselves, why should not better conditions already make the rich more fit to govern them? On the ordinary environment argument the matter i...
If [things] seem to have a relative unreality ... it is because they are potential and not actual; they are unfulfilled ... They have it in them to be more real than they are.
I? What am I? roared the President, and he rose slowly to an incredible height, like some enormous wave about to arch above them and break. You want to know what I am, do you? Bull, you are a man of s...
I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.
I have never been able to understand where people got the idea that democracy was in some way opposed to tradition. It is obvious that tradition is only democracy extended through time. It is trusting...
I cannot understand the people who take literature seriously; but I can love them, and I do. Out of my love I warn them to keep clear of this book. It is a collection of crude and shapeless papers upo...
I am the man who knows too much to know anything, or, at any rate, to do anything,
I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.
I am sure that if triangles ever were loved, they were loved for being triangular.
He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative.
He discovered the fact that all romantics know—that adventures happen on dull days, and not on sunny ones. When the chord of monotony is stretched most tight, then it breaks with a sound like song.
Every true artist does feel, consciously or unconsciously, that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.
Eugenics, as discussed, evidently means the control of some men
Complete self-confidence is not merely a sin; complete self-confidence is a weakness.
Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.
Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags. The mere minimum of the Church would be a deadly ultimatum to the world.
Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.
But again I seem to hear, like a kind of echo, an answer from beyond the world. 'You will have real obligations, and therefore real adventures when you get to my Utopia. But the hardest obligation and...
As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reckon on the unforeseen.
Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal; the shock of beauty is when the irresistible force hits the immovable post.