They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.

I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I'm sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual - we can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see. I'm sure that is entirely wrong.

Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.

The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years. And for this reason, some old things are lovely warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them.

The #‎ cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts.