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" Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. "

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

" Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science. "

" The proper study of mankind is books. "

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

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

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

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

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

" A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. "

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

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

" Several excuses are always less convincing than one. "

" Experience teaches only the teachable. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger. "