“You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.”
Love“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.”
Art“You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.”
Love“Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.”
Happiness“Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.”
Art“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“Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.”
Intelligence“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.”
Nature“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“What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.”
Great“Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.”
Good“We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.”
Age“Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.”
Time“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.”
Age“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“De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.”
History“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.”
Truth“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 bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.”
Good“Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.”
Best“So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.”
Men“Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.”
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