- A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. [The Soul of Man Under Socialism].
- A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. [The Soul of Man Under Socialism].
- Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community, and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilisation. [The Soul of Man Under Socialism].
- All trials are trials of one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
- Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
- Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. [The Soul of Man Under Socialism].
- For what man has sought for is, indeed, neither pain nor pleasure, but simply Life. Man has sought to live intensely, fully, perfectly. When he can do so without exercising restraint on others, or suffering it ever, and his activities are all pleasurable to him, he will be saner, healthier, more civilised, more himself. Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment. [The Soul of Man Under Socialism].
- I have nothing to declare except my genius.
- I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse. [De Profundis].
- It will be a marvellous thing--the true personality of man--when we see it. It will grow naturally and simply, flowerlike, or as a tree grows. It will not be at discord. It will never argue or dispute. It will not prove things. It will know everything. And yet it will not busy itself about knowledge. It will have wisdom. Its value will not be measured by material things. It will have nothing. And yet it will have everything, and whatever one takes from it, it will still have, so rich will it be. It will not be always meddling with others, or asking them to be like itself. It will love them because they will be different. And yet while it will not meddle with others, it will help all, as a beautiful thing helps us, by being what it is. The personality of man will be very wonderful. [The Soul of Man Under Socialism].
- Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. [De Profundis].
- Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. [The Soul of Man Under Socialism].
- The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace. [The Soul of Man Under Socialism].
- The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. [Phrases and Philosophies for the use of the Young].
- The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is. [The Soul of Man Under Socialism].
- To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. [The Soul of Man Under Socialism].
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