Maxioms by Edward M. Forster
The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is read more
The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent.
Lord I disbelieve -- help thou my unbelief.
Lord I disbelieve -- help thou my unbelief.
Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage read more
Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.
Ideas are fatal to caste.
Ideas are fatal to caste.
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.