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War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.
Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.
It is only theory that makes men completely incautious.
Men do not stumble over mountains, but over mole hills.
To become a leader, you must first become a human being
Heaven gives long life to the just and the intelligent.
To err and not reform, this may indeed be called error.
I'm an old Coltrane disciple just like I'm a Christian.
The will is transformed by experience, not information.
Clinical depression is an extreme form of a 'bad mood.'
YES we have a soul but it's made of lots of tiny robots
No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss.
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
When the old plum tree blooms, the entire world blooms.
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
Love-making is radical, while marriage is conservative.
Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt.
God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection
One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things.
We learn from history that we do not learn from history
History teaches us that man learns nothing from history
In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom
Whose fault is it if poor Ireland still continues poor?
Science is the systematic classification of experience.
The public can only be really moved by what is genuine.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.
What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men.
Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.
Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth.
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
What I am, I don't know. I am the simulacrum of myself.
Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.
Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.