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An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it
A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul
Several excuses are always less convincing than one
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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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