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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are
Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget
One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters
One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know
Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted
Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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