The Art of Growing Old

absolutely advantage aesthetic agnosticism attitude categorical imperative Chance Cicero Classics common sense Commonwealth of Nations conscience consciousness death deepest demiurge destiny detachment divine Don Quixote earth egoism elderly elements emotional enjoy enjoyment Erinyes essence essential Evil evolution existence experience fact feel feminine force ourselves Gestapo Goethe Greek Hegel Homer Homo Sapiens human race humour imaginative imperative Inanimate individual instinct kind less Life-Illusion living logic loneliness magic magnetic man's matter mean mental middle-age mind monstrous moral Multiverse mystery mystical namely Nature Ogpu old age old woman pain particular passion philosophy planetary pleasure possess prayer present Dimension psychic pure Rabelais reader regard Religion response Science scientific secret seems selfish sensation sensuous side simple sort soul Spinoza spirit supreme thing thoughts tion totalitarian tragic true truth ultimate Vivisection Walt Whitman Walter Pater whole wisdom women words young youth