“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.”
Age“Dream in a pragmatic way.”
Dreams“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.”
Age“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”
Travel“Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.”
Truth“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.”
Great“Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.”
Science“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.”
Time“A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.”
Freedom“All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.”
Power“Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you.”
Experience“Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.”
Science“Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.”
Truth“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 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“A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.”
Death“People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.”
Work“Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.”
Intelligence“So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.”
Men“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“We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.”
Age“Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.”
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