Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.