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The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.
Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.
The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.
Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.
I have no axe to grind; only my thoughts to burnish.
History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory.
There is no right government except good government.
We do right enough darling, if we go wrong together.
To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.
All spiritual interests are supported by animal life.
There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.
The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive
All beauties are to be honored, but only one embraced.
The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.
All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.
The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence
Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.
Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine.
To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.
Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.
Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.
Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.
The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.
My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule.
Sometimes we have to change the truth in order to remember it.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.
Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.
An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.
Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.
The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age
The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.