 Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning. |
| Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. |
| Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work. |
| There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. |
| A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. |
| Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science. |
| Experience teaches only the teachable. |
| Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. |
| There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail. |
| Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. |
| Dream in a pragmatic way. |
| The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly. |
| Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt. |
| Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. |
| There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done. |
| It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged. |
| After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. |
| Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. |
| I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. |
| What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera. |
