I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. Votes: 5
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. Votes: 2
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool. Votes: 2
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. Votes: 0
Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end. Votes: 0
The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred. Votes: 0
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different. Votes: 0
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles. Votes: 0
Depression is rage spread thin. Votes: 0
Wisdom comes by disillusionment. Votes: 0
The Bible is literature, not dogma. Votes: 0
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them. Votes: 0
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned Votes: 0
Oaths are the fossils of piety. Votes: 0
Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous. Votes: 0
Memory itself is an internal rumour. Votes: 0
Wisdom comes by disillusionment Votes: 0
Sanity is madness put to good use. Votes: 0
A simple life is its own reward. Votes: 0
Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. Votes: 0
Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes. Votes: 0
The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him. Votes: 0
A fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel. Votes: 0
A friend's only gift is himself. Votes: 0
Art is a delayed echo. Votes: 0
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. Votes: 0
Beauty is objectified pleasure. Votes: 0
Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. Votes: 0
Fear first created the gods. Votes: 0
Habit is stronger than reason. Votes: 0
He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing. Votes: 0
If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them. Votes: 0
It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation. Votes: 0
It is wisdom to believe the heart. Votes: 0
Man's most serious activity is play. Votes: 0
Memory... is an internal rumor. Votes: 0
Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble. Votes: 0
Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things. Votes: 0
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject. Votes: 0
Nothing is so irrevocable as mind. Votes: 0
One real world is enough. Votes: 0
People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true. Votes: 0
Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them. Votes: 0
The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil. Votes: 0
There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves. Votes: 0
To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism. Votes: 0
To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic. Votes: 0
We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere. Votes: 0
Wisdom comes from disillusionment. Votes: 0