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| The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice. | | Uncategorized | |
| The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind. | | Uncategorized | |
| The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age. | | Uncategorized | |
| The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own. | | Uncategorized | |
| The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid. | | Uncategorized | |
| The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition | | Uncategorized | |
| The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me | | Mind; Self-love | |
| The nightingales are sobbing in / The orchards of our mothers, / And hearts that we broke long ago / Have long been breaking others. | | Uncategorized | |
| The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears. | | Uncategorized | |
| The Oxford Don: `I don't feel quite happy about pleasure.' | | Uncategorized | |
| The stars are dead; the animals will not look:/ We are left alone with our day, and the time is short and / History to the defeated / May say Alas but cannot help or pardon. | | Uncategorized | |
| The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists. Unfortunately, poetry cannot celebrate them, because their deeds are concerned with things, not persons. . . | | Uncategorized | |
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| The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living | | Uncategorized | |
| Their fate must always be the same as yours, / To suffer the loss they were afraid of, yes, / Holders of one position, wrong for years. | | Uncategorized | |
| There is a certain kind of person who is so dominated by the desire to be loved for himself alone that he has constantly to test those around him by tiresome behavior; what he says and does must be admired . . . | | Uncategorized | |
| There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get an erection?'' If the answer is ''Yes'' from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic. | | Uncategorized | |
| This great society is going smash; / They cannot fool us with how fast they go, / How much they cost each other and the gods! / A culture is no better than its woods. | | Uncategorized | |
| Those who will not reason / Perish in the act: / Those who will not act/ Perish for that reason. | | Uncategorized | |
| Thou shalt not sit With statisticians nor commit A social science | | Uncategorized | |
