B. Priestley
B. Priestley
men fool energy
Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in him before he can settle down to do nothing.
change equality men
Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
children garden public-opinion
Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
writing would-be ifs
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
technology thinking machines
Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them.
age advertising perfect-life
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.
believe men museums
If there was a little room somewhere in the British Museum that contained only about twenty exhibits and good lighting, easy chairs, and a notice imploring you to smoke, I believe I should become a museum man.
dream real self
But the point is, now, at this moment, or any moment, we're only cross-sections of our real selves. What we really are is the whole stretch of ourselves, all our time, and when we come to the end of this life, all those selves, all our time, will be us - the real you, the real me. And then perhaps we'll find ourselves in another time, which is only another kind of dream.
fashion bullying prayer
Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seemed to me to be bent on bullying God.
differences politics way
In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences.
people fancy hierarchy
I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions.
sensitive sincere goodness
The point is to be good-to be sensitive and sincere.
revenge animal prison
We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.
age delight youth
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.