Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
The only history that matters is the history we know.
Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time.
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
America is a lunatic asylum.
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.