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" Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image. "

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" Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. "

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

" Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget. "

" Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. "

" Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain. "

" Several excuses are always less convincing than one. "

" It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.' "

" 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. "

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

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" There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. "

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

" Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength. "

" There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. "

" You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear. "

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

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

" The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not. "

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

" Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. "

" To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. "

" 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. "

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