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Do not take the world too seriously, nor let too many social conventions oppress you.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

So to all who are situated as I am, I would say
Grow up as fast as you can.

War is the health of the state.

One keeps healthy in wartime ... by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.

With the shock of war the state comes into its own again.

A cultivation of the powers of one's personality is one of the greatest needs of life.

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

The ironist is ironical not because he does not care, but because he cares too much.

In America our radicalism is still simply amateurish and incompetent.

The world has never favored the experimental life. It despises poets, fanatics, prophets and lovers.

Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books.

A good discussion increases the dimensions of everyone who takes part.

All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves.

We classify things for the purpose of doing something to them. Any classification which does not assist manipulation is worse than useless.

He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes.

Those persons who refuse to act as symbols of society's folk ways, as counters in the game of society's ordaining, are outlawed.