“All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.”
Power“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.'”
Life“All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.”
Power“People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.”
Work“Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.”
Beauty“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“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.”
Nature“Dream in a pragmatic way.”
Dreams“Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.”
Good“A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.”
Freedom“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“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.”
Politics“Experience teaches only the teachable.”
Experience“The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency.”
Freedom“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“Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.”
Knowledge“Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.”
Good“Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.”
Intelligence“It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.”
Good“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
Technology“What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.”
Men“To his dog, every man is Napoleon hence the constant popularity of dogs.”
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