A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification. -D. H. Lawrence Religion
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar. -D. H. Lawrence Change
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was. -D. H. Lawrence Men
Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition. -D. H. Lawrence Beauty
Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth. -D. H. Lawrence Truth
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. -D. H. Lawrence Nature
Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas! -D. H. Lawrence Art
I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd. -D. H. Lawrence Art
The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up. -D. H. Lawrence Men
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. -D. H. Lawrence Gardening
There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master. -D. H. Lawrence Change
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was. -D. H. Lawrence Freedom
The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just. -D. H. Lawrence Anger
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind. -D. H. Lawrence Art
Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition. -D. H. Lawrence Intelligence
