M. Forster
M. Forster
two style hardship
Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.
inspirational taken creativity
In the creative state a man is taken out of himself.
passion classic howards-end
Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion.
thinking people literature
I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
technology ideas literature
Ideas are fatal to caste.
fate agreement literature
It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
mind literature vices
It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
peace war incredibles
Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
england literature human-nature
England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
flower truth-is neighbourhoods
Truth is a flower in whose neighbourhood others must wither.
character house chess
Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life
atheist believe mind
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all... My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul. My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is 'Lord, I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.
love-is doe affair
Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
character reality sisterhood
Italy is such a delightful place to live in if you happen to be a man. There one may enjoy that exquisite luxury of Socialism--that true Socialism which is based not on equality of income or character, but on the equality of manners. In the democracy of the caffè or the street the great question of our life has been solved, and the brotherhood of man is a reality. But it is accomplished at the expense of the sisterhood of women.