Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts. |
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. |
Blood is wiser than head. |
Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the ni |
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. |
But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more. |
But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in. |
Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither. |
Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. |
Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion. |
Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes. |
Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks |
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar. |
Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth. |
Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions |