But in the meantime, as a temporary measure, I hold what I call the doctrine of the jig-saw puzzle. That is: this remarkable occurrence, and that, and the other may be, and usually are, of...

And how are such wars to be waged? The wise prince will begin by assuming the enemy to be infinitely corruptible and infinitely stupid, since stupidity and corruption are the chief characteristics of man. So...

We have just begun to navigate a strange region; we must expect to encounter strange adventures, strange perils.

We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can’t avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs that the whole of life is a dream, and the moon...

I dream in fire but work in clay.

silence is not weakness and decency is not pride

There are sacraments of evil as well as of good about us, and we live and move to my belief in an unknown world, a place where there are caves and shadows and dwellers in...

Darnell had received what is called a sound commercial education, and would therefore have found very great difficulty in putting into articulate speech any thought that was worth thinking;

We know what happened to those who chanced to meet the Great God Pan, and those who are wise know that all symbols are symbols of something, not of nothing. It was, indeed, an exquisite...

Let us go hence,” and then the darkness of darkness beyond the stars, the darkness of everlasting.

I had a good classical education, and a positive distaste for business of any kind; that was the capital with which I faced the world […] I reflected, then, on my want of prospects, and...