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" Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. "

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" 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. "

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

" Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life? "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. "

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

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

" The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. "

" Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are. "

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