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The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.D.h. Lawrence
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Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.T.S. Eliot
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Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.W.h. Auden
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I began to entertain a suspicion, that no man in this age was sufficiently qualified for such an undertaking; and that whatever any one should advance on that head would, in all probability, be refuted by further experience, and be rejected by posterity. Such mighty revolutions have happened in human affairs, and so many events have arisen contrary to the expectation of the ancients, that they are sufficient to beget the suspicion of still further changes.David Hume
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Of all sciences there is none, where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.David Hume
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In reading we have to allow the sunken meanings to remain sunken, suggested, not stated; lapsing and flowing into each other like reeds on the bed of a riverVirginia Woolf
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The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.W.h. Auden
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And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.Virginia Woolf
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.W.h. Auden
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Nationalism is power-hunger tempered by self-deception. Every nationalist is capable of the most flagrant dishonesty, but he is also – since he is conscious of serving something bigger than himself – unshakeably certain of being in the right.George Orwell