Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization. |
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. |
Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things. |
Literature has always been allegorical. |
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. |
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. |
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. |
Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head. |
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper. |
Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription. |
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. |
Materialists and madmen never have doubts. |
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. |
Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable. |
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades. |