One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth..

Most of the pathetic scenes in almost everybody's life are scenes unnoted by anyone and totally disregarded by the person in question..

Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles..

Words cannot be remote from reality when they create reality..

Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous notion that activ….

It is that cricket field that, in all the sharp and bitter moments of life as they come to me now, gives me a sense of wholesome proportion: 'At leas….

Every day that we allow ourselves to take things for granted, every day that we allow some little physical infirmity or worldly worry to come between….

Man is the animal who weeps and laughs - and writes. If the first Prometheus brought fire from heaven in a fennel-stalk, the last will take it back -….

No refining of one's taste in matters of art or literature, no sharpening of one's powers of insight in matters of science or psychology, can ever ta….

The influence of friendship upon culture differs from that of love, in that it assumes the basic idiosyncrasies of personal taste to be unalterable. ….

The strongest of all psychic forces in the world is unsatisfied desire..

"The meaning of culture" is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books an….

It is strange how few people make more than a casual cult of enjoying Nature. And yet the earth is actually and literally the mother of us all. One n….

Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace..

What is the importance of human lives? Is it their continuing alive for so many years like animals in a menagerie? The value of a man cannot be judge….

The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation. … The way of wisdom is to treat it airily, lightly, wantonly, and in a sp….

The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence with limitless ….

A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens..

This swallowing up of life in nothingness, this obliteration of life by nothingness is what the emotion of malice ultimately desires. The eternal con….

Not the wretchedest man or woman but has a deep secretive mythology with which to wrestle with the material world and to overcome it and pass beyond ….

If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the good and the bad are mingled ….