Theodore Dreiser quotes Born: 08/27/1871 Died: 12/28/1945 Country: usa

• In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance. (Theodore Dreiser) [order/wisdom/ignorance]
• Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. (Theodore Dreiser) [art/human/wings]
• If I were personally to define religion I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance. (attributed) (Theodore Dreiser) [religion]
• Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason. (Theodore Dreiser) [stage/instinct/human]
• Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. (Theodore Dreiser) [words/feelings]
• Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave. (Theodore Dreiser)
• I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence. (Theodore Dreiser)
• Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely. (Theodore Dreiser)
• Nothing is proved, all is permitted. (Theodore Dreiser)

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