Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
love death men
A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.
math lust flesh
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
civilization speech
Speech is civilization itself.
beautiful inspiration artist
It is most certainly a good thing that the world knows only the beautiful opus but not its origins, not the conditions of its creation; for if people knew the sources of the artist's inspiration, that knowledge would often confuse them, alarm them, and thereby destroy the effects of excellence. strange hours! strangely enervating labor! bizarrely fertile intercourse of the mind with a body!
magic world changed
Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
mediocrity mediocre honorable
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
eye sea firsts
Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite from life?
passion taste would-be
He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.
kind-thoughts yield reason
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
adventure sadness men
The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a sociable man; his thoughts are deeper, odder and never without a touch of sadness. Images and perceptions that could be dismissed with a glance, a laugh, an exchange of opinions, occupy him unduly, become more intense in the silence, become significant, become an experience, an adventure, an emotion. Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd and the forbidden.
should socialist humans
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
reality
Everything is politics.
flow foundation timeless
For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.
clever stupid men
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.