Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.
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In general, when reading a scholarly critic, one profits more from his quotations than from his comments.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Poetry)
Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another; they might also ask themselves how much poetry of any period they can honestly say that they understand.
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To ask the hard question is simple, the simple act of the confused will.
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When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.
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A vice in common can be the ground of a friendship but not a virtue in common. X and y may be friends because they are both drunkards or womanizers but, if they are both sober and chaste, they are friends for some other reason.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Moods)
The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is.
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Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.
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