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- Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in…
- There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of…
- One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight interruption in the ongoing march…
- The present moment is the only aperture through which the soul can pass out of time into eternity, through which grace can pass out of…
- Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right
- I know quite well that one needs ridiculous, mad situations like that; one can't write really well about anything else. Why was that old fellow…
- To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the…
- But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.
- Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts…
- A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and…
- I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I…
- One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and…
- Our business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one illusory part which…
- Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.
- 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…
- The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity…
- There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin…
- Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!
- Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt been made to…
- "Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour. Murder kills only the individual-…
- Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to…
- Seated upon the convex mound Of one vast kidney, Jonah prays And sings his canticles and hymns, Making the hollow vault resound God's goodness and…
- The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the…
- A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive.
- Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to…
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