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01c. 1928 AD

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

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02c. 1928 AD

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

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03c. 1928 AD

Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

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04c. 1928 AD

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

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05c. 1928 AD

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

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06c. 1928 AD

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

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07c. 1928 AD

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

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08c. 1928 AD

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

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09c. 1928 AD

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

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10c. 1928 AD

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

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11c. 1928 AD

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

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12c. 1928 AD

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

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13c. 1928 AD

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

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14c. 1928 AD

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

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15c. 1928 AD

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

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16c. 1928 AD

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

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17c. 1928 AD

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

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18c. 1928 AD

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

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19c. 1928 AD

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

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20c. 1928 AD

Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you.

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21c. 1928 AD

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

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22c. 1928 AD

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

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23c. 1928 AD

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

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24c. 1928 AD

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

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