The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
From Havelock Ellis
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
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