From a social standpoint the man of science does not exist.
For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives ta...
Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain...
Doña Beatriz was too proud to lie.
Do you know what I think? I think God has been dead for millions upon millions of years. I think when he took infinity and set in motion the process that has resulted in the universe, he died, and for...
Did Beethoven create his symphonies for his glorification? I don't believe it. I believe he created them because the music in his soul demanded expression and then all he tried to do was to make them...
C.-C.: My dear Arnold, we all hope that you have before you a distinguished political career. You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed...
But on the whole the impression was neither of tragedy nor of comedy. There was no describing it. It was manifold and various; there were tears and laughter, happiness and woe; it was tedious and inte...
And you call yourself an English gentleman,' she exclaimed, savagely.'No, that's a thing I've never done in all my life.
A laboratory had been fitted up, army classes were instituted; they all said the character of the school was changing. And heaven only knew what further projects Mr. Perkins turned in that untidy head...
The human race, like drops of water in that river and they flowed on, each so close to the other and yet so far apart, a nameless flood, to the sea. When all things lasted so short a time and nothing...
Like many another self-educated man, he attached an exaggerated importance to the knowledge he had so painfully acquired and could not resist the temptation to parade it,...
He felt a queer little pang of bitterness because reality seemed so different from the ideal
Мне непонятно, почему многих людей мысль о самоубийстве приводит в ужас. Говорить, что это трусость, — нелепо. Если человек сам уходит из жизни, когда в жизни его не ждет ничего, кроме боли и горя, я...
Малко здрав разум, малко търпимост, малко чувство за хумор и ти ще откриеш, че се чувстваш много удобно на тази планета.
The mask of custom was torn off rudely, showing you the soul all raw.
The hopes that had been cherished there, the bright visions of the future, the flaming passion of youth; the regrets, the disillusion, the weariness, the resignation; so much had been felt in that roo...
One could reconcile oneself to existence only because it was meaningless. It
Eschew
Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand. But