Robert Lynd Quotes

In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.

— Robert Lynd

“Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.”

— Robert Lynd

“A cat is only technically an animal, being divine.”

— Robert Lynd

“There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.”

— Robert Lynd

“The days on which one has been the most inquisitive are among the days on which one has been happiest.”

— Robert Lynd

“There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evildoer.”

— Robert Lynd

“It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.”

— Robert Lynd

“It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that one has never heard before.”

— Robert Lynd

“No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up.”

— Robert Lynd

“It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.”

— Robert Lynd

“If the poets offered us nothing more than another make-believe world, they would be mere sellers of drugs or, at best, sweetmeats.”

— Robert Lynd