Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs.

Whether I get on in the world is a question; but I certainly don't get on very well with the world.

The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree.

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.

The whole life-effort of man is to get his life into direct contact with the elemental life of the cosmos, mountain life, cloud life, thunder life, air life, earth life, sun life. To come into immediate felt contact, and so derive energy, power and a dark sort of joy. This effort into sheer naked contact, without an intermediary or mediator is the root meaning of religion.