Quotes
Faith is a passionate intuition.
Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
A reasoning, self-sufficing thing, An intellectual all-in-all!
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
A day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
Nothing risque, nothing gained.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.
Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.
All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.
You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.
Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradles. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.
Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?
Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.
When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.