Occupation: Writer Birth: September 21, 1866 Death: August 13, 1946
The great trouble with you Americans is that you are still under the influence of that second-rate - shall I say third-rate? - mind, Karl Marx..
In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be….
After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go….
Socialism is the preparation for that higher Anarchism; painfully, laboriously we mean to destroy false ideas of property and self, eliminate unjust ….
Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic,….
There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitab….
There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven..
You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taug….
Everyone leaves the world a little better some by leaving..
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 won….
The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of David and So….
Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?.
A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all..
He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it..
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge..
The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It is the most abs….
...the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man..
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change..
But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people..
The catastrophe of the atomic bombs which shook men out of cities and businesses and economic relations, shook them also out of their old-established….
Hunger makes a fool of a man..