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A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
There are many kinds of gods. Therefore there are many kinds of men.
[I am not] the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
I don't care where I'm from, nor where I'm going. From hell to hell.
There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be
life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.
Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.
Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it.
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.
Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions.
The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.
A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.
I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts.
Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity
Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.
People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.
Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.
Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.
We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.
Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.
Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.
The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.
Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown.
There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.
In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.
Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine.
No less than war or statecraft, the history of Economics has its heroic ages.
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.
Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.
Good is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness.
In spiritual matters, knowledge is dependent upon being; as we are, so we know.
Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.
In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled.
Nothing — the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing.