Quote: In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance. [Theodore Dreiser]
Quote: Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. [Theodore Dreiser]
Quote: If I were personally to define religion I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance. (attributed) [Theodore Dreiser]
Quote: Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason. [Theodore Dreiser]
Quote: Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. [Theodore Dreiser]
Quote: Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave. [Theodore Dreiser]
Quote: I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence. [Theodore Dreiser]
Quote: Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely. [Theodore Dreiser]
Quote: Nothing is proved, all is permitted. [Theodore Dreiser]
Quote: Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. [Theodore Dreiser]
Quote: I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence. [Theodore Dreiser]
Quote: Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave. [Theodore Dreiser]
Quote: Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. [Theodore Dreiser]
Quote: Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely. [Theodore Dreiser]
Quote: Nothing is proved, all is permitted. [Theodore Dreiser]
Quote: Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason. [Theodore Dreiser]
Quote: The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended. [Theodore Dreiser]
Quote: Depend upon it; from every condition of distress or evil, there is a great reaction, and the greater the distress or evil, the greater the reaction. [Theodore Dreiser]
Quote: I will kneel and strike my breast, then touch the dust with my forehead; I will, I will. Only do not forsake me, oh god of beauty. [Theodore Dreiser]
Quote: We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of. We are to have no theaters no motion pictures, no books, no public exhibitions of any kind, no speech even which will anyway contravene his limited view of life. [Theodore Dreiser]
Quote: The strong man wants to be allowed to DO; the little man wants to stop him. [Theodore Dreiser]
Quote: Morality and ethics are nothing but footballs, wherewith people, strong people play to win points. [Theodore Dreiser]
Quote: We who feel that justice is not being done have but one thing to do: that is fight, by argument, by example, by insistence on fair play wherever we have the power to do so. The rest is in the hands of the Lord, or nature, which swings, apparently, from one extreme to another. [Theodore Dreiser]
Quote: Nature, machine-like, works definitely and heartlessly, if in the main beautifully. Hence, if we, as individuals, do not make this dream of a god or what he stands for us real in our thoughts and deeds, then he is not real or true. [Theodore Dreiser]
Quote: Your writer, your scientist, your chief official, all have lost the power to revive the early illusion concerning fame and high place. Their beauty and delight is like the mirage in the heavens, only plain to the eye outside; within is nothing. [Theodore Dreiser]