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

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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.

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... that's what living happens to be ... the physiological denial of reverence and good manners and Christianity.... At your age one's quite o...

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

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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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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

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

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Experience teaches only the teachable.

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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they posses a really effective system of mind-manipulation. Under a scientific dictator, education will rea

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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.

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Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

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The only completely consistent people are the dead.

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

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

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I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

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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.

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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

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

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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

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Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

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

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

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Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to ...

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At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.

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