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

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" Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt. "

" 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. "

" Dream in a pragmatic way. "

" Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. "

" 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. "

" 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 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.' "

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

" The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs. "

" Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay. "

" The proper study of mankind is books. "

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

" Experience teaches only the teachable. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right. "