Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known.
Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
Wealthy people are, as a class, better than impoverished people, more moral, more intellectual, more well-behaved. There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. That is the misery of being poor.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is.
The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever.
The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up.
The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.
The fact is, that civilisation requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralising. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
The fact is that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
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