Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

Hearts Live By Being Wounded

For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.

Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.