Arthur Machen quote: "There are sacraments of evil as well as of good about us, and we live and move to my belief in an unknown world, a place where there are caves and shadows and dwellers in twilight. It is possible that man may sometimes return on the track of evolution, and it is my belief that an awful lore is not yet dead."

Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancie...
ARTHUR MACHEN

For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of ...
ARTHUR MACHEN

Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams ...
ARTHUR MACHEN

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department ...
ARTHUR MACHEN

It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation...
ARTHUR MACHEN

If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to c...
ARTHUR MACHEN

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into myst...
ARTHUR MACHEN

Every branch of human knowledge if traced up to its source and final principles vanishes into myster...
ARTHUR MACHEN

silence is not weakness and decency is not pride
ARTHUR MACHEN

We have just begun to navigate a strange region; we must expect to encounter strange adventures, str...
ARTHUR MACHEN

We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time an...
ARTHUR MACHEN

We're very excited about it. It's a wonderful opportunity...(for administrative professionals) to ge...
JENNIFER MACHEN

It's a good opportunity for us to network. We have a ball.
JENNIFER MACHEN

What is the relation between Christianity and modern culture; may Christianity be maintained in a sc...
JOHN GRESHAM MACHEN

I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to...
JOHN GRESHAM MACHEN

In many respects, my work is very enjoyable, for I seem to get on pretty well with the fellows and e...
JOHN GRESHAM MACHEN

The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism'... at every point, the two movements ...
JOHN GRESHAM MACHEN

What I need first of all is not exhortation, but a gospel, not directions for saving myself but know...
J. GRESHAM MACHEN

Modern culture is a tremendous force.
JOHN GRESHAM MACHEN

For Christians to influence the world with the truth of God's Word requires the recovery of the grea...
J. GRESHAM MACHEN

The great redemptive religion which has always been known as Christianity is battling against a tota...
JOHN GRESHAM MACHEN

But at this point an objection is frequently raised.
The "otherworldliness" of Christianity is...
J. GRESHAM MACHEN

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing ...
ARTHUR MILLER

Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
ARTHUR WELLESLEY

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
ARTHUR ERICKSON

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need...
ARTHUR MILLER

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat ...
ARTHUR MILLER

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN

For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.
OWEN ARTHUR

I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be pol...
OWEN ARTHUR

For he who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
OWEN ARTHUR

Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a g...
OWEN ARTHUR

The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive...
ARTHUR GOLDBERG

(...) a língua é, para o espírito de uma nação, o que o estilo é para o espírito de um indiv�...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon ...
ARTHUR SCARGILL

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British M...
ARTHUR EDDINGTON

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN

I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, y...
BEA ARTHUR

I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows.
BEA ARTHUR

I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was ...
BEA ARTHUR

I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can&#...
BEA ARTHUR

I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.
BEA ARTHUR

I've seen so many excellent actors - excellent actors - who, the minute they're told they...
BEA ARTHUR

I can't imagine working without and audience.
BEA ARTHUR

I really feel all my adult life has been spent in that little black box. If a wonderful part on TV c...
BEA ARTHUR

Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we c...
BEA ARTHUR

I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've se...
BEA ARTHUR

My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up...
BEA ARTHUR

I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.
BEA ARTHUR

No fruit. No veggie.
BEA ARTHUR

In sitcoms, the women are so beautiful, understanding and well-bred. They have humor, but sort of di...
BEA ARTHUR

I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being...
BEA ARTHUR

Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging th...
BEA ARTHUR

You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.
BEA ARTHUR

I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn'...
BEA ARTHUR

PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping ston...
BEA ARTHUR

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these th...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happi...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to b...
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any cond...
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh,...
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN

A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is. -Arthur Schopenhauer.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivat...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in partic...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.
ARTHUR MURPHY

I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serio...
ARTHUR LAFFER

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.
ARTHUR ERICKSON

After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmo...
ARTHUR SMITH

So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilitie...
ARTHUR ROCK

Another misconception is that an order is canceled when you hit 'cancel' on your computer. B...
ARTHUR LEVITT

A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up witho...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG

Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and ...
ARTHUR WINTER

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shal...
ARTHUR SHOPENHAUER

The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man ...
ARTHUR BRISBANE

His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours.
ARTHUR BAER

An empty cab drove up and Sarah Bernhardt got out.
ARTHUR BAER

If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs
ARTHUR BAER

If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end
ARTHUR BAER

The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness
ARTHUR BAER

In mid-career, I was at one and the same time the rabbi of a major congregation, writing books, and ...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG

Moral values, if you want to use them correctly, begin with love of your fellow man. And if they tea...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG

Do the Americans want democracy in the Middle East? Do the Americans want the oil wells of Iraq and ...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG

I have never been a dove because I'm some kind of woolly-eyed liberal. I have been a dove from the v...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG

I wrote two political letters this morning - as a retired country gentleman, who now teaches at the ...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG

Nobody is in the process of making any changes that we can be specific about.
ARTHUR HERTZBERG

What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judais...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG

Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lo...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG

The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured th...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG

I don't know where Bush is going - yet. But, Sharon obviously - I wrote somewhere in the last severa...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG

The biggest deal for me was that all 24 winners are placed on the Billboard CD of the Year, which we...
ARTHUR GODFREY

If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistak...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in th...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Time is that in which all things pass away.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave ne...
ARTHUR ERICKSON

Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-h...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

À l'aurore, armés d'une ardente patience, nous entrerons aux splendides Villes.

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ARTHUR RIMBAUD

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