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| From age to age, nothing changes, and yet everything ..... is completely different | | Uncategorized | |
| From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced. | | Uncategorized | |
| Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations. | | Uncategorized | |
| Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities | | Habit | |
| Happiness is like coke something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else | | Happiness | |
| Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them | | Hell | |
| How appallingly thorough these Germans always managed to be, how emphatic! In sex no less than in war - in scholarship, in science. Diving deeper than anyone else and coming up muddier. | | Uncategorized | |
| I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied... In spite of everything I survive. | | Uncategorized | |
| I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. | | Uncategorized | |
| I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I mean the advertisement. It is far easier to write ten passably effective Sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public. | | Uncategorized | |
| I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. | | World | |
| I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery. | | Uncategorized | |
| Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. | | Idealism | |
| If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners - let us thank heaven for hypocrisy | | Uncategorized | |
| If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution -- then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise. | | Uncategorized | |
| Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh? | | Uncategorized | |
| In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low | | Uncategorized | |
| In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country. | | Uncategorized | |
