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

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

" To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. "

" My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "