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There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.
Man lives by imagination.
Beauty is the child of love.
Liberty is always unfinished business
To make a mountain out of a mole-hill.
Every ist writes his own autobiography.
The mother is the child's supreme parent.
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
When love is suppressed hate takes its place.
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.
There is nothing more fragile than civilization.
No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.
To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Where there is most labour there is not always most life.
The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.
Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul.
Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
Heroes exterminate each other for the benefit of people who are not heroes.
A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.
It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.
Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
However well organised the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.
Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.
We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.
One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship.
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.
