My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.
The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God.
Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient in the case of the middle aged, and unseemly in the old.
For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die
It's the circumstances of popular monarchy, the manner in which it's developed, and it is also the fault of the people who present her with this unquestioning adulation. In other words, it's their lack of a larger faith. Which makes them fasten onto, a purely earthly symbol.
It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying through the stratosphere, or landing on the moon. First-rate pursuits - involving, as they must, trying to understand what life is about and trying to convey that understanding - inevitably result in a sense of failure. A Napoleon, a Churchill, or a Roosevelt can feel himself to be successful, but never a Socrates, a Pascal, or a Blake. Understanding is forever unattainable.
I'm just an actor who happened to love these [Marvel] comics when I was a kid, and got to rediscover them.
I'm coming to London next week, by the way, in unhappy circumstances. Are we getting on fine as we are? Or would you like a drink?
Exactly how intricate a sport is jogging? You were two years old. You ran after the cat. You pretty much had it mastered
Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.