I am glad to see that you have enough imagination not to be altogether a fool... Yes, it is want of imagination that makes people fools; they won't believe what they can't understand.
Egypt went mad with joy, though there were many who in secret mourned over the sex of the infant, whispering that a man and not a woman should wear the Double Crown. But in public they said nothing, s...
Civilisation is only savagery silver-gilt.
A sharp spear, runs the Kukuana saying, needs no polish.
There is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to it. There is nothing, Umbopa, that he cannot do, there are no mountains he may not climb, there are no deserts he ca...
Yet man dies not whilst the world, at once his mother and his monument, remains. His name is lost, indeed, but the breath he breathed still stirs the pine-tops on the mountains, the sound of the words...
Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.
There is much that is noble in all religions, but there is also much that is terrible.
The moon went slowly down in chastened loveliness, she departed like some sweet bride into her chamber, and long veil-like shadows crept up the sky through which the stars peeped shyly out. Soon, howe...
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Listen! What is life? It is a feather, it is the seed of the grass, blown hither and thither, sometimes multiplying itself and dying in the act, sometimes carried away into the heavens. But if that se...
How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?
Amen, father of the gods. CHAPTER III RAMES, THE PRINCESS, AND THE CROCODILE At the appointed time to Ahura, the royal wife, was born a child, a girl with a fresh and lovely face and waving hair and e...
A sharp spear needs no polish.
Job lifted his revolver, fired, and hit a man - not the man he aimed at, by the way: anything that Job shot was perfectly safe.
Больше того, нам дана радость видеть себя и других такими, как мы есть, знать все, что знают боги, и потому прощать - даже тех, кого мы презирали и ненавидели в жизни.
Боги меняют свои царства и имена, люди живут, умирают и оживают, чтобы снова умереть; царства могут пасть, и правители превратятся в забытый прах.
Gods
When is truth pleasing? It is only when we clothe it's nakedness with rags of imagination, or sweeten it with fiction, that it can please.
Whatever She may have been thought to signify, its impact upon publication was tremendous. Everyone read it, especially men; a whole generation was influenced by it, and the generation after that. A d...