If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another's mind.
Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience.
Good music always defeats bad luck
While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.
What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.
A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.
A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope; it's lessening the tension.
Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies.
I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.
I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.
Nothing is more conspicuous than a farting princess.
The less a writer discusses his work and himself the better. The master chef slaughters no chickens in the dining room; the doctor writes prescriptions in Latin; the magician hides his hinges, mirrors, and trapdoors with the utmost care.
Somebody else's ignorance is bliss.
Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.
Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real.
I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.
What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously. "I respond to three questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer in clear and actionable language; for ten I use the language of cant, which occasionally admits of ambiguity; for five, I speak a parable which you must interpret as you will; and for one terce, I babble in an unknown tongue.
Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.
Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles, patient explanations of the obvious, fleeting allusions to the unthinkable. As a preliminary, the conversationalist must gauge the mood, the intelligence and the verbal facility of the company. To this end, a few words of pedantic exposition often prove invaluable.
Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism.
Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party whether he realizes it or not must always come out the worse.
I become drunk as circumstances dictate.
Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty.
I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at very worst, swindlers and tricksters.
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