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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
It's no use locking the door after the steed is stolen.
We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.
Everyone leaves the world a little better some by leaving.
Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.
Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact.
I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world
Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians.
It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin
When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.
Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.
Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship.
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.
It is not much good thinking of a thing unless you think it out.
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill.
The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it's heart.
The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice.
The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.
He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.
So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.
The new century will see changes that will dwarf those of the last.
All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.
An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.
Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness.
States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs.
'It is love and reason,' I said, 'fleeing from all this madness of war.'
Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.
It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller.
We're in a blessed drainpipe, and we've got to crawl along it till we die.
The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography.
The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world
Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.
He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it.
I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.
I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply.
One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction.
If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?
What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?
Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.
Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!
The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.