All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.
Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.
Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.
Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization.
Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.
Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.
Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.
Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.
If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
What drivel it all is!... A string of words called religion. Another string of words called philosophy. Half a dozen other stringscalled political ideals. And all the words either ambiguous or meaningless. And people getting so excited about them they'll murder their neighbours for using a word they don't happen to like. A word that probably doesn't mean as much as a good belch. Just a noise without even the excuse of gas on the stomach.
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life.
Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.
The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice to all the facts of a complex situations. On such a theme one can be brief only by omission and simplification. Omission and simplification help us to understand - but help is, in many cases, to understand the wrong thing; for our comprehension may be only of the abbreviator's neatly formulated notions, not of the vast, ramifying reality from which these notions have been so arbitrarily abstracted.
I am I, and I wish I weren't.
In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead.
Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
The whole story of the universe is implicit in any part of it. The meditative eye can look through any single object and see, as through a window, the entire cosmos. Make the smell of roast duck in an old kitchen diaphanous and you will have a glimpse of everything, from the spiral nebulae to Mozart's music and the stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi. The artistic problem is to produce diaphanousness in spots, selecting the spots so as to reveal only the most humanly significant of distant vistas behind the near familiar object.
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
Let us be kinder to one another.
And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.
People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.
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