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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" The proper study of mankind is books. "

" That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. "

" Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. "

" The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. "

" That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep. "

" 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. "

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

Good Intentions

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

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

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

" 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. "

" It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous. "

" What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera. "

" Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions. "

" 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. "

" Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. "

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

" If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves. "

" There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done. "

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

" 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. "

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