Scepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by... believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe is something he can button in his pocket, and with one or the other organ eat and digest! Lower than that he will not get.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Today I see more clearly than yesterday that back of the problem of race and color, lies a greater problem which both obscures and... implements it: and that is the fact that so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance and disease of the majority of their fellowmen; that to maintain this privilege men have waged war until today war tends to become universal and continuous, and the excuse for this war continues largely to be color and race.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too nu...merous for removal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why were we driven out of Paradise? Why did we fall into this gnawing disease of unappeasable dissatisfaction? Not because we sinn...ed. Ah, no. All the animals in Paradise enjoyed the sensual passion of coition. Not because we sinned. But because we got sex into our head.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For beauty, wit, High birth, vigor of bone, desert in service,... Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames;... Before this strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its head o'ertaxed, its palsied hearts, was rife--LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »