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| Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide. | | Uncategorized | |
| Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom. | | Uncategorized | |
| One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take | | Uncategorized | |
| Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself. | | Death and dying; Pain | |
| Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex. | | Sex | |
| So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces | | Business; Money | |
| The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. | | Absence; Flaws | |
| The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product | | Uncategorized | |
| The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men. | | Civilization | |
| The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life | | Uncategorized | |
| The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum | | Optimism | |
| The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps. | | Uncategorized | |
| The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness. | | Uncategorized | |
| The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. | | Uncategorized | |
| The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing | | Age; Senses | |
| The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands | | Uncategorized | |
| The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and for that a professional chair offers no special opportunities | | Thinking | |
| There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion | | Uncategorized | |
| There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether. | | Uncategorized | |
| There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it | | Uncategorized | |
