Anti-intellectualism Quote by Algernon Blackwood

Time is measured by the quality and not the quanity of sensations it contains.

— Algernon Blackwood

“Deep silence fell about the little camp, planted there so audaciously in the jaws of the wilderness. The lake gleamed like a sheet of…

— Algernon Blackwood

“Certain houses, like certain persons, manage somehow to proclaim at once their character for evil. In the case of the latter, no particular feature…

— Algernon Blackwood

Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.

— Algernon Blackwood

Ritual is the passage way of the soul into the Infinite.

— Algernon Blackwood

“The dusk rapidly deepened; the glades grew dark; the crackling of the fire and the wash of little waves along the rocky lake shore…

— Algernon Blackwood

“The psychology of places, for some imaginations at least, is very vivid; for the wanderer, especially, camps have their "note" either of welcome or…

— Algernon Blackwood

Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for…

— Algernon Blackwood

“The impulse came to her clairvoyantly, and she obeyed without a sign of hesitation. Deeper comprehension would come to her of the whole awful…

— Algernon Blackwood

“He gave it the benefit of the doubt; he was Scotch. ("The Wendigo")”

— Algernon Blackwood

“You know," he went on almost under his breath, "every man who thinks for himself and feels vividly finds he lives in a world…

— Algernon Blackwood

“In spite of his exceeding mental perturbation, Simpson struggled hard to detect its nature, and define it, but the ascertaining of an elusive scent,…

— Algernon Blackwood