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"One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters."

"Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure."

"To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs."

"Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget."

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

"Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself."

"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."

"Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful - if strenuously led - as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progress."

"The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him."

"A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy."

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."

"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."
Intelligence

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

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

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

"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted."

"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."

"Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced."

"Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure."

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