Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of him.
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way
Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on a pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could have confirmed the diagnosis. The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a Lunatic Asylum.
However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
. . . aesthetic values are changed under the influence of sexual emotion; from the lover's point of view many things are beautiful which are unbeautiful from the point of view of him who is not a lover, and the greater the degree to which the lover is swayed by his passion the greater the extent to which his normal aesthetic standard is liable to be modified.
If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled?
He looked as though I'd just run over his pet puppy (though no actual puppies were harmed in the formation of that metaphor).
I watched Italia '90 with my Mum and Dad and my brother, you know, leaping around the house when the penalties were on. . . It would be great to be part of that, to have that kind of impact.
The devil is everywhere under the skin of things, searching for a way into the light.