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Everything is politics.
It could become much worse.
Speech is civilization itself.
Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
What is uttered is finished and done with.
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.
Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.
The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.
…What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.
I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.
Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.