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Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits…
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Isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? The drink that does…
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People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no…
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The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
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There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.
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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
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War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be…
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There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the…
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He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
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The love between dog and man is idyllic, dogs were never expelled from paradise.
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We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at…
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The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.
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Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the…
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There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.
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Madame Nature allows no dangerous classes, in the modern sense. She has, doubtless for some wise reason, no mercy for the weak.…
— Charles Kingsley
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I often ask myself, 'Who would Jesus vote for?' Then I start to think that he wouldn't vote at all; however, it…
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If hatred strikes you, if you get accused, thrown to the lions, you can expect one of two reactions from people who…
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...in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money,…
— Erich Fromm
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There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving - in the complex and…
— Paul Bourget
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How great musicians demonstrate a mutual respect and trust on the bandstand can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every…
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I do not believe in religions in the modern sense. It is an excrescence and a handicap on progress.
— KM II
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