Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an impossible peace with it -- that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon. — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why. — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
Ultimately there is no happiness in a world in which things are not as good as they can be. — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
The value of the creative faculty derives from the fact that faculty is the primary mark of man. To deprive man of its exercise… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
Man cannot live on the human plane, he must be either above or below it. — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge -- or… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools. — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism,… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to. But this is not to say that because we have got used to… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
