Quote by Shirley Jackson

“There is then no sacred or profane, spiritual or sensual, but everything that lives is pure and void.”

— Ananda Coomaraswamy

“In life, you see, there is not much choice. You have either to rot or to burn. And there is not one of us,…

— Joseph Conrad

“Far from it being true that man and his activity makes the world comprehensible, he is himself the most incomprehensible of all, and drives…

— Friedrich Schelling

“There’s a kind of evil that isn’t even in opposition to good, because good is an irrelevance to it. It’s a foulness that’s right…

— John Connolly

“Unlike the majority of people, he did not hate or fear the wilderness; as harsh as the empty lands were, they possessed a grace…

— Christopher Paolini

“Here mankind discarded civilization as if it were an article of clothing and left behind every decent feeling: love; loyalty; simply everything. Here it…

— Schoschana Rabinovici

“Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and…

— Albert Einstein The World As I See It

“In nature there's no blemish but the mind; None can be called deformed but the unkind: Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil Are…

— William Shakespeare

“So that, upon the whole, there must be some kind of subjection due from every man to every man, which cannot be made void…

— Jonathan Swift

“O you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me, you do not know…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, the most helpless and diseased, which in others are luxuries merely, and in others…

— Henry David Thoreau

“...it obeys none of the natural laws of hereditary and environmental change, pays no attention to the survival of the fittest, positively sneers at…

— Charles G. Finney