Life and Existence

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

He [Hercule Poirot] tapped his forehead.

When men stop believing in God they don’t believe in nothing; they believe in anything.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen,

O yonge, fresshe folkes, he or she,

For of fortunes sharpe adversitee

That lyf so short,

Yblessed be god that I have wedded fyve! Welcome the sixte, whan that evere he shal.

Housbondes at chirche dore she hadde fyve.

Der Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland.

Your ashen hair Shulamith we shovel a grave in the air there you won’t lie too cramped.

Where there is great love there are always miracles.

That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

‘You are old, Father William,’ the young man said,

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

A well-written Life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a human heart. One must imagine that Sisyphus is happy.