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Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made…
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Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they…
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The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will…
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When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when…
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
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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…
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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against…
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and…
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One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight interruption in…
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Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?
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To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.
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Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
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In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we…
— Francois Fenelon
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Advice is offensive, not because it lays us open to unexpected regret, or convicts us of any fault which had escaped our…
— Samuel Johnson
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For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation…
— Aldous Huxley
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The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car…
— Vladimir Lenin
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I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any…
— Fred Hoyle
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When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Going to a junkyard is a sobering experience. There you can see the ultimate destination of almost everything we desired.
— Roger von Oech
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Whenever we feel lost, or insane, or afraid, all we have to do is ask for His help. The help might not…
— Marianne Williamson
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We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.
— Lana Del Rey
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We had nothing to lose, Nothing to gain, Nothing we desired anymore, Except to make our lives into a work of art.…
— Lana Del Rey
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