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Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant.
We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength.
No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.
If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.
I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.
Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.
No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him.
It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all.
You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?
Thank God, I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe it
Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
Nothing more predisposes someone in our favour than to let him rob you a little.
Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.
She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference.
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.
It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison.
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
So long as some are strong and some are weak, the weak will be driven to the wall.
I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
The humorist has a good eye for the humbug; he does not always recognize the saint.
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
I thought it was only in revealed religion that a mistranslation improved the sense.
If truth is a value it is because it is true and not because it is brave to speak it.
Success. I don't believe it has any effect on me. For one thing I always expected it.
Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.
He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.
It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.