21 quotes
The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.
The Book of The Damned (1919)
I conceive of nothing, in religion, science, or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.
Wild Talents (1932)
Existence is Appetite: the gnaw of being; the one attempt of all things to assimilate to some higher attempt.
The Book of The Damned (1919)
The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely.
The Book of The Damned (1919)
If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the adjusting constructiveness of all other growing things.
Lo! (1931)
"Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts.”
Wild Talents (1932)
My general expression is that all human beings who can do anything; and dogs that track unseen quarry, and homing pigeons, and bird-charming snakes, and caterpillars who transform into butterflies, are magicians.
Wild Talents (1932)
My liveliest interest is not so much in things, as in relations of things. I have spent much time thinking about the alleged pseudo-relations that are called coincidences. What if some of them should not be coincidences?
Wild Talents (1932)
One can't learn much and also be comfortable. One can't learn much and let anybody else be comfortable.
Wild Talents (1932)
I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negative genius.
Wild Talents (1932)
Science of to-day — the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow — the superstition of to-day.
The Book of The Damned (1919)
If there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin … One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.
Venus de Milo.
To a child she is ugly.
When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful.
The Book of The Damned (1919)
Everywhere is the tabooed, or the disregarded. The monks of science dwell in smuggeries that are walled away from event-jungles. Or some of them do. Nowadays a good many of them are going native.
Wild Talents (1932)
If there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.
Lo! (1931)
It is our expression that the flux between that which isn't and that which won't be, or the state that is commonly and absurdly called "existence," is a rhythm of heavens and hells: that the damned won't stay damed; that salvation only precedes perdition.
The Book of The Damned (1919)
If any spiritualistic medium can do stunts, there is no more need for special conditions than there is for a chemist to turn down lights, start operations with a hymn, and ask whether there's any chemical present that has affinity with something named Hydrogen.
Lo! (1931)
Ch. 6 at resologist.net
An unknown vegetable substance falls from the sky. The datum is buried: it may sprout some day.
New Lands (1925)
Scientists who have thought that they were seeking Truth, but who were trying to find out astronomic, or chemic, or biologic truths. But Truth is that besides which there is nothing: nothing to modify it, nothing to question it, nothing to form an exception: the all-inclusive, the complete--By Truth I mean the Universal.
The Book of The Damned (1919)
Would we if we could, educate and sophisticate pigs, geese, cattle? Would it be wise to establish diplomatic relations with the hen that now functions, satisfied with mere sense of achievement by way of compensation? I think we're property"
The Book of The Damned (1919)