All Quotes

To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life. ”

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough? ”

I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated forces used for the bringing-about a happy life for all. ”

We shall not be happy unless we live like good animals, unless we enjoy the exercise of the ordinary functions of life: eating, sleeping, loving, walking, running, swimming, riding, sailing. ”

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. ”

Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things may seem too wonderful for us to resist, too exciting not to catch at, if we do not know that they are but phases of what has been before and withal ruinous, deceitful, and sordid. ”

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. ”

I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose. ”

We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless waste, and communism, or the system of neighbourly common sense. ”

I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very great many books, good, bad, and indifferent. ”