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One's work is never so bad as it appears on bad days, nor so good as it appears on good days.
The more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs.
Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.
A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Sin is geographical.
Memory demands an image.
Worry is a form of fear.
All movements go too far.
Philosophy bakes no bread
Choose your parents wisely.
Only six need be attempted.
What is matter? Never mind.
To fear love is to fear life.
Envy is the basis of democracy.
Do not feel certain of anything.
Hitler is an outcome of Rousseau.
Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
Beware the man of the single book
It's coexistence or no existence.
I do so hate to leave this world.
All forms of fear produce fatigue.
We know too much and feel too little.
Man can be scientifically manipulated.
Vanity is a motive of immense potency.
The camera is as subjective as we are.
Orthodoxy is the death of intelligence.
War grows out of ordinary human nature.
Ants and savages put strangers to death.
Americans need rest, but do not know it.
Some people would rather die than think.
All human activity is prompted by desire.
Change is one thing, progress is another.
Of course not. After all, I may be wrong.
A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.
We need a science to save us from science.
All religions are both harmful and untrue.
Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Love is a slippery eel that bites like hell
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
We must be skeptical even of our skepticism.
Almost all education has a political motive.
We must be sceptical even of our scepticism.
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
One must care about a world one will not see.
