Happy Charlotte, who, though greatly troubled over things that did not matter, seemed oblivious to things that did...
E.M. ForsterI want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.
E.M. Forster…to descend from bright heaven to earth, whereon there are shadows because there are hills…
E.M. ForsterStichwörter: poetical
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all... My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul. My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is 'Lord, I disbelieve — help thou my unbelief.
E.M. ForsterStichwörter: religion faith atheism
...The conversation had become unreal since Christianity had entered it. Ronny approved of religion as long as it endorsed the National Anthem, but he objected when it attempted to influence his life.
E.M. ForsterThey had started speaking of "women and children" - that phrase that exempts the male from sanity when it has been repeated a few times. Each felt that all he loved best in the world was at stake, demanded revenge, and was filled with a not unpleasing glow...
E.M. ForsterIt matter so little to the majority of living beings what the minority, that calls itself human, desires or decides.
E.M. ForsterWhat indeed is there to say? To be or not to be married, that was the question, and they had decided it in the affirmative.
E.M. ForsterTrue socialism is based not on equality of income or character, but on the equality of manners.
E.M. ForsterMen were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls.
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