At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy read more

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

There, right in the midst of our lives, is that which satisfies the craving for inequality, and acts as a read more

There, right in the midst of our lives, is that which satisfies the craving for inequality, and acts as a permanent reminder that medicine is not food. Hence a man’s reaction to monarchy is a kind of test. Monarchy can easily be ‘debunked;' but watch the faces, mark the accents of the debunkers. These are the men whose tap-root in Eden has been cut: whom no rumour of the polyphony, the dance, can reach - men to whom pebbles laid in a row are more beautiful than an arch. Yet even if they desire equality, they cannot reach it. Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

I used to have a sign over my computer that read OLD DOGS CAN LEARN NEW TRICKS, but lately I read more

I used to have a sign over my computer that read OLD DOGS CAN LEARN NEW TRICKS, but lately I sometimes ask myself how many more new tricks I want to learn. Wouldn’t it be easier just to be outdated?

You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else.

You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else.

Dogs never bite me. Just humans.

Dogs never bite me. Just humans.

The problem with people is that they're only human.

The problem with people is that they're only human.

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

Will you still need me,will you still feed me..When I'm sixty-four?

Will you still need me,will you still feed me..When I'm sixty-four?