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| At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols. | | Uncategorized | |
| At thirty-three . . . Lilian Aldwinkle appealed to all the instinctive bigamist in one. She was eighteen in the attics and widow Dido on the floors below. | | Uncategorized | |
| Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder | | Beauty | |
| But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock. | | Uncategorized | |
| But when the wearied Band / Swoons to a waltz, I take her hand, / And there we sit in peaceful calm, / Quietly sweating palm to palm. | | Uncategorized | |
| Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic. | | Uncategorized | |
| Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions. | | Uncategorized | |
| Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. | | Children | |
| Classic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. | | Uncategorized | |
| Dream in a pragmatic way. | | Dreams | |
| 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 | | Reading | |
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| Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. | | Experience | |
| Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. | | Experience | |
| Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science, as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules | | Uncategorized | |
| Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism. | | Facts | |
| Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. | | Uncategorized | |
| Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy | | Philosophy | |
