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“Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.”
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“Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.”
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“Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.”
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“Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.”
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“The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.”
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“Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.”
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“Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.”
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“Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.”
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“Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.”
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“My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.”
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“My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.”
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“Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.”
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“Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.”
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“A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.”
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“A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“The proper study of mankind is books.”
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“The proper study of mankind is books.”
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“Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.”
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“Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.”
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“We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.”
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“We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.”
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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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“A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.”
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“What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.”
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“What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.”
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“From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.”
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“It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.”
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“It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.”
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“Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.”
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“Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.”
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