Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.

With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

These are not free men in any rational and exact sense of the word.

Before proving it to someone else, I had to be able to prove it to myself.

Drink your Desires to taste your self!

When your heart becomes the grave of your secret, that desire of your will be gained more quickly.

Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.

Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.

An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.

There is plenty of room to make a profit in a zero-carbon economy; but the profit motive is not going to be the midwife for that great transformation.

Stop lookin' at what you ain't got, and start being thankful for what you do got.

Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.

I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.