Skip to content
quotesby

More from Wystan Hugh Auden

  1. The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

    Permalink to quote #67
  2. The mystics themselves do not seem to have believed their physical and mental sufferings to be a sign of grace, but it is unfortunate that it is precisely phys…

    Permalink to quote #69
  3. The idea of a sacrificial victim is not new; but that it should be the victim who chooses to be sacrificed, and the sacrificers who deny that any sacrifice has…

    Permalink to quote #66