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And what strange voices they have! Sometimes like the complaining of small children; sometimes like the noise of lambs ...

To criticise something imperfect is always amusing, and maybe profitable in those cases where the imperfections can be remedies.

[T]he vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly
they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.

When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.

Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right

Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.

And do remember that a gramme is better than a damn.

Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Nothing is more dreadful than a cold, unimpassioned indulgence. And love infallibly becomes cold and unimpassioned when it is too lightly made.

I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.

And I'm not a poet: but never despair!
I'll madly live the poems I shall never write.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine.

Simplicity is no virtue unless you are potentially complicated.

Consider the horse'
They considered it.

I like being myself. Myself and nasty.

Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.

Human beings were not, as the eighteenth-century philosophers supposed, wise and virtuous: they were apes.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

The flower of the present rosily blossomed.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them.

God is Dipa's alibi. Why can't criminals be frank about what they're up to? All this disgusting idealistic hogwash - it makes one vomit.

Christlike in my behavior
Like any good believer
I imitate the Savior
And cultivate a beaver

We should talk less and draw more. (Goethe)

I want God, I want poetry, I want danger, I want freedom, I want sin.

But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably.

I decided love was essential. The problem was the timing. Human beings hesitate.

Liberties aren't given, they are taken.

The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it.

The Diamond Sutra,

Moral education, which ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational.

I'll teach you; I'll make you be free whether you want to be or not.

Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.

All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.

A love of nature keeps no factories busy.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

The most nearly free men have always been those who combined virtue with insight.

Dedicated to all those who say: "I don't have time for analytics" or "I don't understand analytics".

Western intellectuals are all sitting-addicts. That's why most of you are so repulsively unwholesome.

In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.

Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.

Champagne has the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.

I don't care where I'm from. Nor where I'm going. From hell to hell.

We are unable to see the mind, and find it difficult in consequence to understand its nature.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.

If you want to get men to act reasonably, you must set about persuading them in a maniacal manner.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.

The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.

Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.

Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.

As for women, I am perpetually assuring myself that they're the broad highway to divinity

Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality.

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.

Science [is] that wonderfully convenient personification of the opinions, at a certain date, of Professors X, Y, and Z ...

And so they lived unhappily ever after'.

The Russian technique for infecting water supplies was particularly ingenious." Back

Did you ever feel," he asked, "as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out?

Here and now, boys.

Round and round they went with their snakes, snakily ...

Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?

Ford's in his flivver; all's well with the world.

Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.

He had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular

Without economic security, the love of servitude cannot possibly come into existence

The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions, he added parenthetically, out of Remy de Gourmont.

Even the best cookery book is no substitute for even the worst dinner.

The more stitches, the less riches.

The silent bear no witness against themselves.

But truth's a menace, science is a public danger. As

What fun it would be,' he thought, 'if one didn't have to think about happiness!' With

The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.

The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.

Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.

Torture and other forms of stress were inflicted

One must have some basis of experience on which to build an imagination.

It isn't only art that is incompatible with happiness, it's also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

The moral is plain. Avoid, if possible, being bored yourself or boring others.

Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it.

The secret of genius is to carry the child into old age.

Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.

I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.

Power and wealth increase in direct proportion to a man's distance from the material objects from which wealth and power are ultimately derived.

Believe it or not, a normal human being is one who can have an orgasm and is adjusted to his society.

If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.

Knowledge is porportionate to being ... You know in virtue of what you are.