Shall I tell you what you have that other men don't?.... It's the courage of your own tenderness.

I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.

The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close. To know is to lose.

The nice clean intimacy which we now so admire between the sexes is sterilizing. It makes neuters. Later on, no deep, magical sex-life is possible.

Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.

One should stick by one's soul, and by nothing else. In one's soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life from death. And if one betrays one's own soul-knowledge one is the worst of traitors.