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The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
The earth has music for those who listen.
Art is a delayed echo.
One real world is enough.
Fear first created the gods.
Habit is stronger than reason.
Depression is rage spread thin.
Memory... is an internal rumor.
Beauty is objectified pleasure.
Oaths are the fossils of piety.
A simple life is its own reward.
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
A friend's only gift is himself.
Sanity is madness put to good use.
It is wisdom to believe the heart.
Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.
Wisdom comes from disillusionment.
The Bible is literature, not dogma.
Memory itself is an internal rumour.
Man's most serious activity is play.
Heaven is to be at peace with things.
There is no dunce like a mature dunce.
Columbus gave the world another world.
Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway
Beware of long arguments and long beards.
Music is essentially useless, as is life.
It is the acme of life to understand life.
Docility is the observable half of reason.
Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
The living have never shown me how to live.
The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.
Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything.
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect...
All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.
The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.
The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon.
It is a great bond to dislike the same things.
Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
America is a young country with an old mentality.
Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
A country without a memory is a country of madmen.
