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01c. 1928 AD

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

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02c. 1928 AD

Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.

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03c. 1928 AD

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

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04c. 1928 AD

At any given moment life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time having a purpose tending in a certain direction.

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05c. 1928 AD

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.

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06c. 1928 AD

That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.

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07c. 1928 AD

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able vicariously to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat what's more with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

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08c. 1928 AD

Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.

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09c. 1928 AD

If you have behaved badly repent make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

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10c. 1928 AD

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

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11c. 1928 AD

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture.

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12c. 1928 AD

The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished not by doing something but by refraining from doing. Great is truth but still greater from a practical point of view is silence about truth.

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13c. 1928 AD

The course of every intellectual if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough ends in the obvious from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.

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14c. 1928 AD

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtures are of no avail.

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15c. 1928 AD

What we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.

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16c. 1928 AD

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 at the end. To know one must be an actor as well as a spectator.

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17c. 1928 AD

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces sleep.

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18c. 1928 AD

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

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19c. 1928 AD

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

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20c. 1928 AD

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.

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21c. 1928 AD

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

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22c. 1928 AD

Dream in a pragmatic way.

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23c. 1928 AD

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

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24c. 1928 AD

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

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