Category: Thought

[T]he only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

[T]he direction of society has been taken over by a type of man who is not interested in the principles of civilisation. Not of this or that civilisation but — from what we can judge to-day — of any civilisation.

Life is fired at us point blank.

Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself.

Nationalism is always an effort in a direction opposite to that of the principle which creates nations.

I am as desirous of being a good neighbor as I am of being a bad subject.

It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear.

It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?

Talk of mysteries! — Think of our life in nature, — daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, — rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! the actual world! the common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? where are we?