“We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.”
Age“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
Religion“We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.”
Age“Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.”
Good“Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.”
Good“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
Religion“Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you.”
Experience“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.”
God“A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.”
Freedom“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.”
Nature“Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.”
Dad“Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.”
Power“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.”
Freedom“To his dog, every man is Napoleon hence the constant popularity of dogs.”
Pet“Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.”
Good“What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.”
Great“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.”
Love“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.”
War“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.”
God“Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.”
History“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”
Travel“Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.”
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