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

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" Dream in a pragmatic way. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history. "

" The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. "

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

" 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. "

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

" A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt. "

" You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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.' "

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

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

" It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous. "