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" Several excuses are always less convincing than one. "

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" The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen. "

" All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. "

" It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged. "

" What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure. "

" Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. "

" The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. "

" Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science. "

" A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt. "

" Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness. "

" Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking. "

" Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. "

" God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. "

" After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. "

" We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look. "

" Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something. "

" 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. "

" Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. "

" Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying. "

" Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. "

" What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. "

" Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. "

" The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly. "

" A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. "

" Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. "

" The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous. "

" Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning. "

" Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. "

Good Intentions

" Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. "