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" The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. "

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

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

" Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. "

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

" 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. "

" Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" The proper study of mankind is books. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable. "

" Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. "

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

" Several excuses are always less convincing than one. "