Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes

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So gazing up on hot summer nights at the London stars, I cool my thoughts with a vision of the giddy, infinite, meaningless waste of Creation, the blazing Suns, the Planets and frozen Moons, all crashing blindly forever across the void of space.

Logan Pearsall Smith
How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom

Logan Pearsall Smith
I woke this morning... into the well-known, often-discussed, but, to my mind, as yet unexplained Universe.

Logan Pearsall Smith
I think of Space, and the unimportance in its unmeasured vastness, of our toy solar system; I lose myself in speculations of the lapse of Time, reflecting how at the best our human life on this minute and perishing planet is as brief as a dream.

Logan Pearsall Smith
What shall I compare it to, this fantastic thing I call my Mind? To a waste-paper basket, to a sieve choked with sediment, or to a barrel full of floating froth and refuse? No, what it is really most like is a spider's web, insecurely hung on leaves and twigs, quivering in every wind, and sprinkled with dewdrops and dead flies. And at its centre, pondering forever the Problem of Existence, sits motionless the spider-like and uncanny Soul.

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To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can be cured, if it is ever cured at all, by years of painful treatment.

Logan Pearsall Smith
I know too much; I have stuffed too many of the facts of History and Science into my intellectuals. My eyes have grown dim over books; believing in geological periods, cave dwellers, Chinese Dynasties, and the fixed stars has prematurely aged me.

Logan Pearsall Smith