When in doubt, choose greatness.
What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?
In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?
Only by avoiding the beginning of things can we escape their end.
That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.
Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.
There is no suicide for which all society is not responsible.
A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality.
When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.
The man who is master of his passions is Reason’s slave.
We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence.
The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back.
It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator.
The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be discovered.
Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.
Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.
Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.