What is your theologian's ecstasy but Mahomet's houri in the dark?
We are but phantoms, and the phantoms of phantoms, desires like cloud-shadows and wills of straw that eddy in the wind; the days pass, use and wont carry us through as a train carries the shadow of it...
This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.
The fever of war that would presently clog vein and artery, deaden nerve, and destroy brain, had yet to develop.
That afternoon, with a sense of infinite relief, Pollock watched the flat swampy foreshore of Sulyma grow small in the distance. The gap in the long line of white surge became narrower and narrower. I...
Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far myexperience is common. At times I suffer from the strangest sense ofdetachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it al...
Over me, about me, closing in on me, embracing me ever nearer, was the Eternal, that which was before the beginning and that which triumphs over the end; that enormous void in which all light and life...
He sighed and looked about him. 'This is no world for men,' he said. 'And yet in a way...it appeals.
Before, they had been beasts, their instincts fitly adapted to their surrounds. Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never dies, fretted by a law they could not understa...
An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.
The new mathematics is a sort of supplement to language, affording a means of thought about form and quantity and a means of expression,more exact,compact, and ready than ordinary language. The great...
When mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man.
What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active, strong, and subtle survive and the weaker g...
We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existence, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to t...
Under the new conditions of perfect comfort and security, that restless energy, that with us is strength, would become weakness.
Seeing the ease and security in which these people were living, I felt that this close resemblance of the sexes was after all what one would expect; for the strength of a man and the softness of a wom...
Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.
In our growing science of hypnotism we find the promise of a possibility of replacing old inherent instincts by new suggestions, grafting upon or replacing the inherited fixed ideas. Very much indeed...
I perceived with a sudden novel vividness the extraordinary folly of everything I had ever done.
I felt amazingly confident,—it’s not particularly pleasant recalling that I was an ass.