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| There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness | | Happiness; Impulses | |
| There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it | | Uncategorized | |
| There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character | | Character; Civilization | |
| They have taken the care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents, where it belongs, and thrown it upon a gang of irresponsible and unintelligent quacks | | Uncategorized | |
| Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals | | Ethics; Time | |
| Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals. | | Morality; Time | |
| To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess | | Love; Men and Women; Relationships | |
| To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia. | | Uncategorized | |
| To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment | | Uncategorized | |
| To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! | | Death and dying; Ideas | |
| To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. | | Expectation | |
| To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason | | War | |
| Truth would quickly cease to become stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it | | Truth | |
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| Try to imagine a Shakespeare beset by fundamentalism, or a Goethe trying to work with the Ku Klux Klan roaring under his door | | Uncategorized | |
| Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right | | Voting | |
| Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. | | Progress | |
| Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting | | Voting | |
| War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands | | Uncategorized | |
| We are apt to forget that a great man is thus not only great, but also a man: that a philosopher, in a life time, spends less hours pondering the destiny of the race than he gives over to wondering if it will rain tomorrow and to meditating upon the | | Uncategorized | |
