All the rest is silence On the other side of the wall, And the silence ripeness, And the ripeness all.

All the rest is silence On the other side of the wall, And the silence ripeness, And the ripeness all.

The older lives like not to be stood in rows or at right angles.

Beloved, we are always in the wrong, Handling so clumsily our stupid lives, Suffering too little or too long, Too careful even in our selfish loves: The decorative manias we obey Die in grimaces round us every day, Yet through their tohu-bohu comes a voice Which utters an absurd command - Rejoice.

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.