Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
Memory itself is an internal rumour.
The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
Each religion necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself. Religions, like languages, are necessary rivals. What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.
Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and dread.
Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.
The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive
There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.
The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.
Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.
Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying in the remote future in perfect health.
For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
The soul, too has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit.
Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.
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