The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be mere rushing on.

When I see a colour or hear a sound, I am aware of something, and not of nothing.

It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.