
No two person, ever read the same book.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
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They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.

What a gulf between the self which experiences and the self which describes experience.

No two persons ever read the same book.

Capitalism has run its course, and we shall have to look for other ideals than the ones that capitalism has encouraged.

In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.

Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night.

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.