Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
It's better to be born lucky than rich. If you're rich, you may lose your money, but if you're born lucky, you will always have more money.
We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.
Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.
One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
The living moment is everything.
Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness.
Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness.
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.
The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.
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