How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning.
The dead don't die. They look on and help.
When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realise any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience every time.
Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is.
No form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all that there is in life, it seems to me.
I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill. I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self, and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help and patience, and a certain difficult repentance long difficult repentance, realization of life’s mistake, and the freeing oneself from the endless repetition of the mistake which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify.
It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
People always make war when they say they love peace.
You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.
There is a sixth sense, the natural religious sense, the sense of wonder.
Love is the hastening gravitation of spirit towards spirit, and body towards body, in the joy of creation.
Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.
When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.
There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of -vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us.
You've got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself.
I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.
When love turns into dust, money becomes the substitution.
If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do I care! Let life be what it likes. Give me a drink, that's what I want just now.
I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
Nothing but love has made the dog lose his wild freedom, to become the servant of man.
What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.
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