There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.
W. H. AudenThe windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true of the normal heart; For the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have; Not universal love But to be loved alone.
W. H. AudenHuman beings are, necessarily, actors who...can be divided...into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.
W. H. AudenOf course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.
W. H. Auden