Best E. M. Forster Wisdom
- Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice. Bewildering
- Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards. Afterwards
- One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions. Certain
- One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves. Children
- Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another. Cambridge
- People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness. Beyond
- Reverence is fatal to literature. Fatal
- Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind. Civilization
- The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme. Countryside
- The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which… Affection
- The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink. Doe
- The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists. Art
- There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy. Bad
- There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer. Agnosticism
- Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy. All
- We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. Approached
- I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little… Always Feel
- The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than… Book
- Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't… Art
- Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts… Accepting
- I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the… Deals
- I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to… Account
- The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He… Behave
- I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it — and I'm sure I can't tell you whether the… Colliding
- The businessman who assumes that his life is everything, and the mystic who asserts that it is nothing, fail, on this side and on that,… Alive
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