Quotes
Quotes about Men
We need philosophers, not men who've been exalted through their skill at shyster's tricks, who shell out shibboleths, who fox, who fix, committed to the timocractic view that wealth is power, and neither is for you
He gave in wonder to this world a pair of tormented eyeballs
Many a man ... has known preferment through timely verses
Coldly for a moment he saw that if there was to be love it must be love with advantage
... he sighed, knowing himself to be caught forever between worlds - earth and air, reason and belief, action and contemplation. Alone among all sorts of men, he embraced a poet's martyrdom
Women will ever go for the experienced man. They can oft see experience in a man's eyes
Can you not forsee what you will feel when you are truly grown up? You will understand the disappointments then. You will see where metaphors go wrong, that the door is most tight shut when it seems most open, that we are condemned to dying more than to death. Let me tell you the manner of our dying away from each other, which is not yet death
He had the sensation of being pulled on ... to the slow unravelling of his last instalment of destiny
Literature is an epiphenomenon of the action of the flesh
I am sick of big men. I would write of little ones if I could
So many of our troubles spring from nature, not from the actions of men. Or women
A different dream, gentlemen, a dream which, again, outstrips the reality
The immense air opens and closes my book. The wave, pulverized, dares to gush and spatter from the rocks. Fly away, dazzled, blinded pages. Break, waves. Break with joyful waters ...
There is no commandment that says thou shalt not masturbate
Because you have cast off the troublesome burden of inconvenient belief in eternal and condign punishment you have not thereby changed the divinely ordained reality
For the moment, society is sick. But you are cured
Men carry an image like a banner. They see in mirrors only what they wish to see. Women are more realistic
Better to travel in hope than to arrive at hope's fulfillment
I was not quite all things to all men, but I had plenty to offer
God gave his creatures the most tremendous endowment, the thing most like his own essence - I mean freedom of choice. If he knows in advance what his creatures are going to do, then he's denying them freedom. So he deliberately blacks out foreknowledge. God could know, if he wished, but out of respect and love for his creatures, he refuses to know. Can you imagine a more awesome gift than this - God denying himself out of sheer love?
The universe exists and somebody had to make it. The whole complex movement of the universe represents order. The Creator loves order and hates chaos. Virtue is order. Sin is chaos ... The sinner often doesn't understand the extent to which he destroys order ... The soul dedicated to order joins the ultimate divine order
I'm making amends for a wasted life - I'm proud to be contributing to scholarship
Writers in time transfer the mendacity of their craft to the other areas of their lives
What ... I was trying to prove was the limitlessness of the creative artist's province, his capacity for imagining feelings and situations totally beyond his personal encompassment
I can't afford affairs. I mean, affairs begin with dinner and wine and candlelight to continue in commodious apartments. I live in one room and sleep in the smell of the gasring cooker
