We all write poems; it is simply poets are the ones who write in words.
There is only one good definition of God; the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write in words.
Only fools think our attitude to our fellow men is a thing distinct from our attitude to 'lesser' life on this planet.
But I think the most harmful change brought about by Victorian science in our attitude to nature lies in the demand that our relation with it must be purposive, industrious, always seeking greater knowledge.
Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit.
The newspapers are full of what we would like to happen to us and what we hope will never happen to us.
I am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always does to war. It is not social or political. It is not countries that go to war, but men. It is like salt. Once one has been to war, one has salt for the rest of one's life. Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women from laughing at them.
Night fell again. There was war to the south, but our sector was quiet. The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed - thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes - because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself - and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.
Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women from laughing at them.
