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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.

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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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