"

All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.

"

It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleep...more

"

The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachm...more

"

Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.

"

Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations ca...more

"

Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fa...more

"

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its content. We live on a placid island of ignoranc...more

"

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

"

I neither knew nor cared whether my experience was insanity, dreaming, or magic; but was determined to gaze on brilliance and gaiety at any cost.

"

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.

"

All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamin...more

"

In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,But all the sadder tums, the more he knows!

"

Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make the mistake of thinking that the... cosmos... gives...more