The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one’s religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.
Men are not free when they’re doing just what they like. Men are only free when they’re doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some diving.
The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.
For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once.
Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness. And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.
Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.
How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances.
I like to write when I feel spiteful; it’s like having a good sneeze.
The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
One’s action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.
You must always be a-waggle with LOVE.
The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
You live by what you thrill to, and there’s the end of it.
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.