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

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" Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. "

" The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. "

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

" There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. "

" Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. "

" There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail. "

" The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. "

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

Good Intentions

" So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable. "

" The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. "

" Every man's memory is his private literature. "

" Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. "

" 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. "

" Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations. "

" Maybe this world is another planet's hell. "

" The proper study of mankind is books. "

" 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. "

" The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. "

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

" An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. "

" 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. "

" Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. "

" You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. "