Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom. |
Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him. |
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. |
Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through, and see those whom one lives come through. |
How can I know what I think till I see what I say? |
I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life. |
I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars. |
I am the means and not the end. I am the food and not the life. Stand by yourself, as that boy has stood. I cannot save you. For poetry is a spirit; and they that would worship it must worship in spirit and in truth. |
I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country |
I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country |
I have been racking my brains and can find no reply [to] this very reasonable question. I can only suggest that the fictional part of me dried up. |
I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be. |
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves. |
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves. |
Ideas are fatal to caste |